Group Suicide Suspected in Deaths of Four People
From Times Wire Reports
Four people suspected of committing group suicide were found dead inside a parked car, officials said. The report follows a surge in such deaths arranged over the Internet.
The bodies of three men and one woman were found in a car parked on a mountain road in Shizuoka, 100 miles west of Tokyo, Japanese police said.
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.
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