Posted on 03/15/2006 11:41:00 PM PST by freepatriot32
TOKYO - Four people suspected of committing group suicide were found dead inside a parked car Wednesday, officials said. The report follows a surge of such deaths arranged over the Internet.
The bodies of three men and one woman, all believed to be in their 30s, were found in a car parked on a mountain road in Shizuoka, 100 miles west of Tokyo, police said.
Authorities suspect suicide and said the four died from fumes as several charcoal burners were found inside the car, which had its windows sealed with tape, according to Kyodo News agency.
There have been several previous cases of group suicides in Japan set up between strangers over the Internet _ though it wasn't immediately clear how the latest group of people met.
The bodies of nine people were discovered in two separate cases of group suicide last week. In one case, three people died after inhaling charcoal fumes in a car.
Ninety-one people died in 34 Internet-linked suicide cases last year, up from 55 people in 19 cases in 2004, the National Police Agency reported last month. The number of Internet suicide pacts has almost tripled from 2003, when the agency started keeping records.
Suicide pacts have been made over the Internet since at least the late 1990s. Politicians have suggested that suicide sites be regulated or shut down.
Nine People Dead in Japan Mass-Suicides
WTF is wrong with the japanese lately
Sorry freepatriot32; that off topic post should be to "all."
Well good for them. No mess to clean up. Sorry no sympathy here.
same here just means that much more water and air for the rest of us.
These J's are wierd. I think they have the ihghest suicide rate in the world.
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