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Germany Nurse Admits Killing About 30 Patients

A nurse, tried for several months by a German court has admitted killing thirty critically ill patients.

who were hospitalized in intensive care, according to an expert hearing Thursday during a trial hearing, reports the German agency dpa.

This nurse, already condemned in 2008 for attempted murder to seven and a half years in prison in September compared to the court of Oldenburg (north) for the murders of three patients and attempted murder of two other patients, all hospitalized care intensive and that it would have injected drug overdoses.

Investigators suspect that they wanted and demonstrate resuscitation skills.

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