The World - News from April 10, 1989

Authorities in Austria arrested a fourth nurse in connection with the deaths of 44 hospital patients who police say were killed by lethal injections. Police Chief Guenther Boegl told a news conference in Vienna that three nurses arrested late last week had confessed to killing seriously ill patients at Lainz Hospital, one of the city’s oldest medical facilities. But another investigator said the nurses also killed patients considered a nuisance. Initial reports said there were up to 35 killings, but Boegl said there were 44 deaths beginning in 1983. He said police were searching hospital records.