A doctor suspected of killing several patients is being investigated by German police, who have already done a number of autopsies and exhumations linked to the case, reports Medpage Today.
The public prosecutor’s office in the town of Itzehoe said they were looking into “past deaths” and that a special commission was probing the case.
No details of the number of deaths were provided, “for reasons of investigative tactics”, but the investigators said the forensic medical examination and evaluation of the findings were expected to take several weeks.
In a different case, a Berlin doctor was charged in April with the killings of 15 patients under palliative care. The doctor was part of a nursing service’s end-of-life care team and investigators said they have found evidence linking him to the deaths of 15 people between 22 September 2021, and 24 July last year.
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