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Cops Probe 80 deaths Involving Male Nurse
Reuters
Berlin, Germany
August 6, 2004
German police investigating a male nurse who admitted killing 10 elderly patients with lethal injections are checking whether he deliberately caused 70 further deaths, authorities said yesterday.
The 25-year-old man, who was not named, worked in a hospital in the southern German town of Sonthofen and said he had killed the 10 patients aged 60 and over because he couldn't stand seeing them "wasting away" in pain, police and prosecutors said.
Police are checking how ill the patients had been. The nurse was arrested last week after coming under suspicion of stealing quantities of a tranquilliser drug and a muscle relaxant from the hospital which, when injected in combination, cause death.
Three bodies were exhumed from cemeteries yesterday, Peter Koch, spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the southern town of Kempten said.
"Forensic examinations are currently being carried out but results won't be known for several weeks," Koch said in a statement.
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