Police: Suspect in hospital killings is clinic employee

<p>BERLIN &mdash; German police said Thursday that a 51-year-old woman detained on suspicion of killing four people at a hospital in the eastern city of Potsdam is an employee at the clinic.</p>
<p>Officers called to the Oberlin Clinic shortly before 9 p.m. on Wednesday found the victims and a fifth person who was seriously injured in patient rooms, Brandenburg state police said.</p>
<p>“The victims showed signs of significant external violence,” police spokesman Thorsten Herbst told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>Police were still investigating the exact circumstances but said the detained woman was “urgently suspected” of the killings.</p>
<p>Local newspaper Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten reported the victims were residents of the Thusnelda von Saldern House, which cares for people with serious disabilities. </p>
<p>Potsdam is on the southwestern edge of the German capital, Berlin.</p>