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The drama took place on Thursday morning. A 30-year-old nurse was fatally stabbed by a patient in a psychiatric unit in Thouars (Deux-Sèvres), who was placed in police custody, we learned from a source judicial.

"An investigation of flagrancy has been opened for murder and attempted murder of persons charged with a public service mission," said the prosecution. The nurse was assaulted in the morning by a patient, 20 years old, who was trying to leave this unit of the Center hospitalier Nord Deux-Sèvres. He failed to hurt another nurse.

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