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On October 26, at around 18:30, a 24-year-old man died in a high-rise building on Tarona Street in the Shaharkishlok mahalla. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the preliminary cause of death was a ruptured liver; no signs of crime were found at the scene. A forensic medical examination has been ordered, and a pre-investigation review is underway.
Otabek YusupovThe Furkat District Court has concluded the case of the mass poisoning of 105 pupils of Fergana kindergartens in February 2026. The defendants were four employees of Garden Catering Trade LLC, which served 238 state kindergartens. The court found them guilty of violating sanitary norms, embezzlement and document forgery, but released them in the courtroom taking into account time spent in custody.
Otabek YusupovIn Fergana, on October 26, 2026, 51 children from three kindergartens (No. 2, 7 and 47) were hospitalized or received medical assistance with symptoms of food poisoning. 28 children are in the infectious diseases hospital in stable condition, and 23 were sent home. The Food Safety Committee is conducting an epidemiological investigation and laboratory tests of food products; the suppliers have already been identified. The final cause of the illness has not yet been confirmed.
Sevara AzamovaOn October 14 at 13:50, an earthquake of magnitude 3.4 occurred in the Batken district of Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 10 km. Tremors with an intensity of up to 2–3 points were felt in Uzbekistan's Fergana Region, the seismic prognostic monitoring center reported.
Otabek YusupovIn Samarkand, a woman attempting to sell a narcotic substance, her three sons and her son-in-law were detained. They attacked customers with bladed weapons, inflicting serious bodily injuries on three people. In total, more than 2 kilograms of opium's illegal circulation was stopped in Samarkand and Fergana.
Aziz Karimov
