Nurse ‘killed patients with disinfectant drips’

A nurse suspected of killing at least 20 elderly patients at a hospital in Japan told police that she added disinfectant to their drips before finishing her shifts because it was “a nuisance” to explain to relations when a person had died during her working hours.

Ayumi Kuboki, 31, has admitted killing two men as well as “about 20 other patients” at Oguchi Hospital, Yokohama, south-west of Tokyo, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.