Baltimore residents urged to boil tap water after E coli detected

A resident carries bottled water to his home in Baltimore on Tuesday. Photograph: Bryan Woolston/AP

E coli has been detected in multiple locations across Baltimore in recent days, city officials have announced.

Residents have been urged to boil tap water for at least a minute after E coli samples were detected in West Baltimore over the weekend. Since then, over 1,500 people in the city of around 600,000 have been affected by the advisory, including multiple schools.