October 6, 2016.
At Yokohama hospital, south of Tokyo, suspicious deaths have been occurring for several months. Police are now investigating and suspecting mass poisoning.
46 suspicious deaths since July
Japanese police have opened an investigation into an intriguing phenomenon at a hospital in southern Tokyo. Recently, the management of the establishment reported the suspicious deaths of two people aged 88. Well-founded suspicions, since the autopsy of the two bodies revealed that they had been poisoned by a chemical substance, probably delivered with an antiseptic.
The matter does not end there, since according to hospital management, 46 deaths in strange conditions have been recorded since July. ” We see a lot of people dying here due to the nature of our establishment but it seems to us that their numbers are increasing a bit. “, Declared an official of the hospital, to the agency Kyodo.
Infusion bags would have been pierced
While the police have not yet confirmed this information, they are currently following the trail of massive poisoning. According to local press, medical staff allegedly claimed to have seen perforated infusion bags in the storerooms on the floor where these suspicious deaths occurred.. But since the start of the case, many bodies have been cremated, making the investigation even more difficult.
However, the police make many resources available to investigators to clarify the circumstances of what could be a mass killing.
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