A nurse who is being
investigated for voluntary manslaughter in the suspicious deaths
of at least six patients in a hospital in the village of Piario
near Bergamo is to remain on unpaid leave through the end of the
month, sources said Monday.
Milan-born Anna Rinelli, 43, is suspected of voluntary
manslaughter by injecting heavy doses of Valium and other
tranquilizers to patients to keep them sedated during her night
shifts, but who subsequently died.
She has been under investigation since December last year,
when prosecutors ordered six bodies exhumed for toxicology
testing. Those results are not in yet.
A former patient at the Piario hospital told police that he
"lost four days of his life" after falling into a coma beginning
on the night of November 1, when Rinelli was on duty.
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