Eight people were diagnosed with food poisoning and sent to the hospital in the Otegen Batyra village outside Alma-Ata on Sunday night, an official in the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry said.
"Six of the poisoned people are citizens of Kyrgyzstan and two are Kazakhs. Forty minutes later, a Kyrgyz citizen died in the hospital," the ministry official said.
Initial reports suggest the people were poisoned by the noodles, said Nurum Ivulayev, an inspector with the press service of the Alma-Ata region police.
Representatives of the Moscow branch of the Rollton trading house said the victims had suffered from counterfeit noodles.
"We are 100% certain that even if the people were poisoned by food products bearing the Rollton brand, these products had nothing to do with real Rollton noodles," said Alexander Sokoloverov, the deputy director general for the company's public relations department.
