The Australian Police have reported the death of the 95-year-old woman with senile dementia who was reduced with a taser by a police officer when he was carrying a knife inside a nursing home.

“It is with great sadness that we confirm the death of Clare Nowland, 95, tonight. Mrs Nowland died in hospital,” the New South Wales Police said on its Facebook page.

The officer who reduced her with the taser after going for an emergency call to the retirement home in the town of Coomaabout 430 kilometers southwest of Sydney, was suspended from employment.

The events occurred on Wednesday when the Police went to the nursing home in response to an emergency call. When the elderly woman refused to drop the knife and “slowly” rode her walker toward the officers, one of them fired a taser at her to subdue her. The electric shock caused the woman, about 43 kilos and 1.57 meters, to fall and hit her head on the ground.

The police’s actions have once again highlighted the controversial use of tasers by the Australian police, questioned by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International.

In 2012, the Brazilian student Roberto Curti died in Sydney after receiving 14 electric shocks from the Police and a court found four officers guilty in 2014 for the excessive use of force that led to the death of the young man, who suffered a psychotic episode after ingesting a psychotropic substance.