NURSE CHARGED WITH KILLING ELDERLY INMATES

OTTAWA: A nurse has been arrested and charged with murdering eight elderly residents under her care at retirement homes in Canada’s Ontario province, police said yesterday. The alleged killings occurred between 2007 and 2014 at two private facilities where Elizabeth Wettlaufer worked, authorities said. The 49-year-old faces eight counts of firstdegree murder. The male and female victims aged 75 to 96 “were administered a drug,” Ontario police said. – AFP