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Japan Faces Wave Of Internet-Based Suicide Pacts

An AP newswire article, via CBS News, reports that:

The scene has become chillingly familiar. A group of young Japanese was found dead from asphyxiation in a sealed car, charcoal stoves still smoking beside them — thought to be the latest victims in an alarming surge in suicide pacts arranged over the Internet.

The bodies belonged to five men and one woman, all in their 20s, police said. Authorities suspected the six met over the Internet before dying together Thursday night in a forested area about 50 miles northwest of Tokyo.

posted by Fergie @ 3/10/2006 07:07:00 PM