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Japanese girl commits suicide with detergent, sickens 90 neighbors

TOKYO - A 14-YEAR-OLD Japanese girl killed herself by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, releasing fumes that also sickened 90 people in her apartment house, police said on Thursday as they grappled with a spate of similar suicides.

None of the sickened neighbors in Konan, southern Japan, was severely injured, although about 10 were hospitalised, authorities said. The deadly hydrogen sulfide gas escaped from the girl's bathroom window and entered neighboring apartments.

The girl's suicide on Wednesday night was part of a rapidly expanding string of similar deaths that experts say have been encouraged by Internet suicide sites. A 31-year-old man outside Tokyo killed himself inside a car early on Thursday by mixing detergent and bath salts, police said.

A local police spokesman refused to give further details, but Kyodo News agency reported the man put a sign reading 'Stay Away' on the car window.

The method has alarmed officials because of the danger that bystanders can be hurt.

'It's easy and everyone can do it,' said Yasuaki Shimizu, director of Lifelink, a Tokyo-based group specialising in halting suicides. 'Also there is a lot of information teaching people how to do it on the Internet.'

Police say they have not tallied the number of detergent-related suicides, but media reports suggest it has reached about 30 this year, including several cases in which others were also sickened.

The 14-year-old girl, whose name was not released by police, followed the pattern of other deaths.

She mixed detergent with a liquid cleanser in her bathroom, police said. The door was closed, and she had affixed a sign on the outside warning, 'Gas being emitted,' Kyodo reported.

Most of those sickened nearby complained of sore throats, and about 30 people were evacuated to a nearby gymnasium.

Japan's government has long battled to contain the country's alarmingly high suicide rate. A total of 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006, giving the country the ninth highest rate in the world, according to the government.

Suicides first passed the 30,000 mark in 1998, near the height of an economic slump that left many bankrupt, jobless and desperate.

The government has earmarked 22.5 billion yen (S$297 million) for anti-suicide programmes to help those with depression and other mental conditions.

Last year it set a goal of cutting the suicide rate by 20 per cent in 10 years through steps such as reducing unemployment, boosting workplace counseling and filtering Web sites that promote suicide. -- AP

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shypineapple

why must she end her life this way....wanna die,at least don't affect anyone
& she nvr think for her parents,they must be veri sad

I know i screwed it up but I will love you forever.
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hooolahoop

do you know the reason why she committed suicide? 'cos she student, so she won't feel the economic crisis impact that much for it to be the reason of her suicide ba..

Xiiao Rongz

aiyo, that shows even commit suicide, must plan before hand to avoid affecting anyone.

sleepyyun

this method can be easily done by anyone and affect so much ppl...highly dangerous method

Shi Yuen

sad girl. so young wanna die le.
should live till abit older and experience life the stuff then die mahs =\

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davidkwankk

it reminded me of a rather disturbin Japanese movie called, "Suicide Club" tat i saw in the cinema a few yrs back....
n i tot tat was all fiction until i read tis....

pple jux killed themselves in Japan for apparently no reason....
n it s really happenin....

i recalled an openin scene from the movie whereby a number of young school girls(with all their diff school uniform) started gatherin to form a line(hand in hand, from both ends) on a train platform n jumped all together at once, head on at the approachin train....

below s the scene, (WARNING, NOT FOR THE WEAK HEART, if u think u cant handle it, u prob cant):

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n_o_r_i_k_o

wa.... wat a creative way to die.. -__-lll

that video.. is yucks!

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hooolahoop

i don't dare watch the video!!! i very timid de... but very interested to watch... will be very bloody or not? if not, maybe i still can watch ba...

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YoursTruly

Go video??

n_o_r_i_k_o

o_O.. watch lo...
still ok de la...
(blood abit fake) lol...

the video is above my previous post....