Shanghai police see no foul play in Russian teen model's death

Shortly after the model's death, her agency ESEE reproduced a medical report from Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai that gave the cause of death as septicaemia. - AFP/file

Shanghai (AFP) - Shanghai police have ruled out foul play and cast doubt on allegations that overwork contributed to the death of a 14-year-old Russian model after she took part in Shanghai Fashion Week last month.

The death of Vlada Dzyuba in a Shanghai hospital on October 27 threw a spotlight on the murky world of foreign models in China -- many from the former Soviet Union -- and raised questions over why a minor was working abroad without a proper guardian.