Japan: Murder probe doctor 'removed patients' respirators'

A surgeon is suspected of causing the deaths of seven patients at a Japanese hospital by removing their respirators, it was reported today.

Police have launched a murder probe into the suspected euthanasia deaths in October after someone removed the patients’ respirators at the hospital in Imizu City in Toyama state, 160 miles north west of Tokyo, said city spokesman Masahiro Sato.