A nurse has been arrested in Lugo, northeast Italy, after a patient admitted to hospital with a routine illness was found dead with unusual amounts of potassium in her bloodstream.
As police question Daniella Poggiali, 42, about the unexplained death of 78-year-old Rosa Calderoni, they are widening their inquiry to include 37 other deaths from the same hospital. Ten of them are described as "very suspicious", according to the Daily Mail.
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