According to local department, more than 120 people were evacuated from their apartments in western Japan after a 14-year-old girl killed herself by producing and inhaling poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas.

The use of such poisonous gas to commit suicide increased and received much media attention in Japan in recent months, after websites showed methods of creating the gas with bathroom cleansers.

At least 40 such cases of suicides have taken place this year, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported last week, citing the Japan Suicide Prevention Association.

Japan has the second highest suicide rate in the Group of Eight nations after Russia, a World Health Organization report showed.// Reuters



Publication date: 25 April 2008   

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