Italy - Ambulance driver under investigation on suspicion of murder of 5 patients, Forlì, 3 March 2026

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An ambulance driver for the Italian Red Cross is suspected to have murdered five elderly patients when they were transported between hospitals and care homes in the Emilia-Romagna region.

Prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Forlì are investigating an ambulance driver on suspicion of murdering five elderly patients.

All the suspicious deaths occurred while or soon after the patients were transported in an ambulance driven by the 27-year-old man, lawyers of the victims told the Guardian.

Italian ambulance driver investigated on suspicion of murdering five patients

Prosecutors in the northern city of Forlì are investigating a 27-year-old man, currently suspended from the Italian Red Cross

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