Cold-blooded nurse!
A former nurse working in a hospital in Yokohama, Japan, admitted injecting disinfectant into at least 20 patients. She said she did it after work, before leaving to hope the patient's condition deteriorate and die when she was not on duty, so as to avoid a declaration of death to the patient's family and explain the "troublesome things".
31-year-old Kuboki Ayumi was arrested last Saturday after she was found poisoning the 88-year-old male patient Nishikawa Miba. She will be sent to the procuratorate next mother.
She said explaining the details of every patient to their family was exhausting, so she poisoned those victims who were in serious condition.
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Nishikawa Miba died on 18 Sept 2016. According to the official reports, his blood sample contains a high concentration of disinfectant Benzalkonium Chloride. Ayumi was believed injecting it into his intravenous bag to hope Miba die after her work.
When investigating the case of Miba, the police has found that the other three patients were suspicious of the cause of death and found traces of disinfectant in their bodies. Ayumi admitted to killing Nishikawa as well as 20 patients by adding disinfectant to their drips for two consecutive months since July 2016.
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Ayumi had denied guilty until being arrested. She insisted she felt shocked about it the incident and sorry for the patient's family.
During July to September 2016, a total number of 48 patients died. Only in August, there were 5 people died. The police are investigating whether other deaths are related to her.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Japan's foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, to reaffirm Japan’s “strong support” for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and to discuss further sanctions against Moscow, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
High on the agenda was Tokyo’s “grave concern” over growing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, the ministry said.
According to U.S., South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence assessments, up to 12,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia as part of a major defense treaty between the countries. Last week, Ukrainian officials said Ukraine and North Korean troops engaged in small-scale fighting while Ukraine’s army fired artillery at North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Ukraine launched a surprise push on Aug. 6.
The agreement requires both countries to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance if either is attacked.
Iwaya’s visit comes after the Ukrainian capital was attacked overnight by Russian drones, damaging residential buildings and infrastructure in Kyiv’s Obolon district. No casualties were reported.
Ukrainian air defenses neutralized up to a dozen drones, said the head of Kyiv’s military administration, Serhii Popko.
Russia attacked Ukraine with 83 Shahed drones in the early hours of Saturday morning, the Ukrainian air force reported. Of those, 55 were shot down, while another 30 veered off course or were lost after electronic jamming, it said.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 35 Ukrainian drones, including 20 over the western Kursk region and 11 over the Bryansk region.
Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, late Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
