Thursday, February 09, 2006

Japan Internet Suicide Deaths Soar to 91 in 2005

A Reuters newswire article by Elaine Lies, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

The number of Japanese killing themselves in groups after meeting through the Internet -- strangers afraid to die alone -- soared to a record 91 last year, nearly double that of 2004, police said on Thursday.

The deadly pacts pose a grim challenge for officials struggling to deal with Japan's high suicide rate, one of the worst among industrialised nations.

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