MOSCOW, June 9 (Xinhua) -- At least 60 students and two counselors at a summer camp run in Russia's Sverdlovsk region have been hospitalized for suspected food poisoning, the Russian Investigative Committee said Saturday.
The children aged 7 to 12 and the two camp counselors aged 18 at the Sosnovy health resort camp in the Urals area were taken to hospital on Friday and Saturday. They had developed "symptoms of abdominal pain, nausea and a general malaise," the committee said in a statement.
Their conditions are currently stable, it added.
The committee's local office has launched a criminal investigation into the incident, interrogating the camp's administration and examining the food supplies.
