Germany: A convicted nurse in Germany who is serving life sentence is being suspected of killing 84 patients by injecting them a deadly medication.
The former nurse is already serving life sentence for murdering patients.
According to media reports the man who is being identified as Niels H. one of the worst serial killers in the Germany’s criminal history’.
After the court ordered to exhume the nurse’s former patients, traces of the medication in 84 cases was found, this, as Aljazeera reported, was said by Johann Kuehme the police chief in the northern German city of Oldenburg during a press conference on Monday.
According to Kuehme the numbers of deaths could be even higher. However, many of the patients have been cremated.
The nurse has admitted of deliberately injecting patients with deadly drugs at two clinics in northern Germany with deadly drugs and then to play hero would try to revive, German media said.
During analysis of hundreds of medical records, more than 100 bodies have been exhumed to test them for traces of drugs.
Reports also say that police and prosecutors last year, June 2016, concluded that the man had killed 33 patients at the clinic in Oldenburg.
The nurse would inject patients with a drug so that they suffered heart failure or a shut down their circulation systems.
