Cheshire Baby Deaths: Second Hospital Joins Inquiry After Nurse Is Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Eight Babies

A security officer outside the entrance to the Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, Britain, July 3, 2018. Andrew Yates/Reuters

A second hospital has joined the probe into a nurse arrested on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of another six.

The nurse, named by British media as 28-year-old Lucy Letby, was arrested on Tuesday in an investigation into the deaths of 15 babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit.