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Four dead in Romania psychiatric hospital attack: reports
BUCHAREST, Aug 18, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Four people have died and nine were
injured after being attacked by a patient in a psychiatric hospital, Romanian
press reports said Sunday.
They said a 38-year-old man who had admitted himself to the hospital in
Sapoca, northeast of the capital Bucharest, entered a treatment room and
attacked other patients with a transfusion stand.
Three of the patients suffered head injuries and died at the scene while a
fourth died later in hospital, the reports said.
Among the nine injured in the attack, two were in a coma, they added.
“Everything happened in less than a minute,” hospital director Viorica
Mihalascu was quoted as saying.
“This patient was admitted on a normal surveillance level. His symptoms did
not give an indication that a tragedy was imminent,” she told Antena 3
television station.
BSS/AFP/SSS/1541 hrs