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Article: Action call on suicides.
- Article from:
- Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2006
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Support groups across Lancashire have renewed calls for global action to tackle Internet suicide chat rooms after nine people killed themselves in Japan.
The bodies of five men and a woman were found in a car at Chichibu, near Tokyo. They had been asphyxiated. Police are now investigating whether they met via the internet.
Meanwhile, three more bodies were found near Hirosaki.
Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and the pacts appeal to those scared to die alone.
The number of Japanese people taking their own lives in pacts made over the internet rose sharply last year. A total of 91 died in internet pacts in 2005, ...