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German nurse given life sentence for killing 10 patients

The defendant committed the crimes in 2023 and 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen near Aachen. [Oliver Berg, AFP]

A German court on Wednesday ordered a life jail sentence to a palliative care nurse for the murder of 10 patients and attempted murder of 27 others with lethal injections.

The court in the western city of Aachen found the 44-year-old man guilty of the offences committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen near Aachen.

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