US EditionItalian Ambulance Driver Suspected of Murdering Five Patients
Five elderly patients died from cardiac arrest during non-emergency ambulance transports; prosecutors suspect poisoning and may file voluntary multiple homicide charges.
- An unnamed ambulance driver in Italy is under investigation after five elderly patients died during non-emergency transports, prosecutors say.
- The employer became suspicious after four deaths between February and November last year and worked with Italy's Carabinieri to install hidden cameras and recording devices in the ambulance.
- The autopsy on an 85-year-old woman who died during a hospital-to-rehab transfer prompted prosecutors to investigate possible covert methods.
- The ambulance driver, employed since 2023, has been suspended and prosecutors say he could be charged with voluntary multiple homicide this week; the suspect's name has not been released.
- Prosecutors told CNN they suspect `poisonous substances or other insidious means`, broadening the criminal inquiry with surveillance and forensic evidence.
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Italian ambulance driver suspected of murdering five patients
A 27-year-old ambulance driver is under criminal investigation in the northern Italian city of Forli, on suspicion of murdering at least five elderly people he was transporting by ambulance, a spokesman from the local prosecutor’s office told CNN.
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