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A 27-year-old ambulance driver is under criminal investigation in the northern Italian city of Forli, on suspicion of murdering at least five elderly people he was transporting by ambulance, a spokesman from the local prosecutor’s office told CNN.
All five patients suffered cardiac arrests, the Forli prosecutor’s office spokesman said. All were elderly and were being treated for serious illnesses, he said, adding that they required non-emergency transportation between their homes or nursing care facilities and hospitals and clinics.
The spokesman said the ambulance service that employed the young man became suspicious after four patients who had been transported…