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A German former nurse on Tuesday admitted murdering 100 patients, making him one of the country’s deadliest post-war serial killers. Niels Hoegel, 41, confessed to killing his patients — between the ages of 34 and 96 — at two hospitals in northern Germany between 2000 and 2005. On the first day of his trial at a court in Oldenburg, northwest Germany, Hoegel said the murder allegations against him were correct. Around 126 relatives of the victims are co-plaintiffs in the trial, which is expected to run until May next year, a court spokeswoman told CNN. Prosecutors said Hoegel should have been aware that the drugs he gave to patients at hospitals in Delmenhorst and Oldenburg could cause life-threatening cardiac problems. The post German Former Nurse Admits Killing 100 Patients appeared first on Star Media Ghana .

An estimated 4,645 people died in Hurricane Maria and its aftermath in Puerto Rico, according to an academic report published Tuesday in a prestigious medical journal. That figure dwarfs Puerto Rico’s official death toll of 64, which the article’s authors called a”substantial underestimate” of Hurricane Maria’s death toll. “These numbers … underscore the inattention of the US government to the frail infrastructure of Puerto Rico,” authors from Harvard University and other institutions wrote in the New England Journalof Medicine. The official death toll in Puerto Rico has been the subject of substantial controversy since Hurricane Maria hit this island, a US territory, on September 20. CNN and other news outlets have used government statistics and extensive interviews with families of the deceased and funeral home directors to question the Puerto Rican government’s official tally of deaths. Previous estimates suggested Maria contributed to about 1,000 deaths. The team from Harvard ...

A Trotro driver, Sampson Kwaku Ayisi, 61, has committed suicide at Alajo, a surburb of Accra. The sad incident occurred Thursday at Alajo Down Town, close to the Virtue International School. The late driver, who was married with three children, was found hanging in the kitchen by his wife Thursday morning. Wife of the deceased, Madam Lydia Wiafe, suspects her husband took his own life because it was becoming difficult for him to raise money to settle a GHC900 debt. She told Atinka News that, her late husband was a trotro driver and was owing his “car owner”, a police officer an amount of GHC900. The amount represents the “daily sales” for nine days. A daughter of the deceased, Amanobea, a teacher, disclosed to Atinka News that the police officer had earlier threatened to kill his father by invoking curses on him if the debt was not settled by Saturday. “The car owner showed us two eggs and a bottle of schnapps when we visited him Monday to plead for more time. He warned my fathe...