AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE ‘ANGEL OF DEATH’ AT HOSPITAL

Japanese police are investigating the possibility that an “angel of death” may have been behind the suspicious deaths of 48 patients at a hospital in Yokohama.

Police initially opened an investigation into the deaths of two patients at the Oguchi Hospital, south west of Tokyo, after staff determined that their intravenous drip bags had been pierced and the solution contaminated with a compound, possibly a disinfectant. Police have since found a further 10 unused intravenous drip bags that had been pierced and have announced that they are looking into the deaths of a further 46 patients over the space of 82 days from July 1.

Authorities at the hospital told media they were aware of the spike in deaths, but assumed it was because the facility had been accepting more terminally ill patients.