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Two bodies found in car in central Japan, police suspect Internet suicide

(Tokyo-AP) April 23, 2006 - Authorities suspect that two bodies found in a parked car in central Japan are another case in a spate of suicide pacts forged over the Internet.

A police official says a passer-by discovered the bodies of two men, aged 31 and 22, in a mountainous area 45 miles west of Tokyo. Two charcoal burners were found inside the vehicle.

The official says the men appeared to have met over the Internet and may have formed a suicide pact, but he didn't elaborate.

The deaths follow a string of similar cases in Japan. In March alone, at least 21 people were found dead in six separate cases of group suicide in Japan, with at least four cases thought to have involved people who made contact on the Web.

Posted 8:25pm by Graeme Moore

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