China doctor kills insomniac girlfriend by injecting anesthetics 20 times in six hours


A doctor in China has been jailed after he killed his girlfriend by injecting her with anesthetics 20 times in six hours. -- Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock

BEIJING (SCMP): A Chinese doctor has been condemned online after he tried to treat his girlfriend’s insomnia by administering anaesthesia more than 20 times in six hours, a move which tragically resulted in her death.

The medic, identified only by the surname Qu, is an anesthesiologist at an unnamed hospital in Jiajiang county, Leshan, Sichuan province, in southwestern China.

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