Nurse suspected of killing 13 people

Italian police have arrested a nurse on suspicion of killing 13 patients, mostly in their 80s, who underwent surgery in a state-run hospital in Tuscany.

Nurse suspected of killing 13 people

Most of the patients suffered severe haemorrhaging during the procedures and investigators later determined that each had a level of anticoagulant in their bloodstreams up to 10 times the recommended dose, investigators told a news conference.

None of the patients was terminally ill at the time of the surgeries, which included a routine operation for a broken femur.

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