Brazilian doctor suspected of killing 300 patients

A Brazilian doctor is being investigated amid fears she may have killed up to 300 patients in what could be one of the world’s worst serial killings.

Virginia Soares de Souza is being investigated on suspicion of intentionally killing some 300 patients to free up hospital beds at the Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil.

Many of the patients died prematurely, with many conscious and talking moments before they died.