Nine die in group suicides in Japan
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TOKYO -- Nine bodies were found in two parked cars yesterday with charcoal stoves at their feet and the windows sealed from inside in what is believed to be Japan's largest group suicide.
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Nine patients of a clinic for the mentally ill in Siberia died in a fire Sunday, a day after a blaze at a Moscow drug treatment center killed 45, officials said.
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An Indonesian government official said nine people died and hundreds were injured in a powerful earthquake of 8.2 magnitude which struck Indonesia's Sumatra region on Wednesday.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Pakistani army recruits returning from a soccer game in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing nine of them, the army said.
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Japanese police said on Tuesday they were  investigating a suspected group suicide involving seven people  who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides  linked to the Web.
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moving northeast over large parts of the country including Tokyo, with winds up to 67 miles per hour. Media reports said at least nine had died, but public broadcaster NHK said the toll had reached 11.
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Japanese police are investigating two cases of suspected group suicide, after several people were found dead in parked cars outside the capital, Tokyo.
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The death toll in western Japan as a result of Typhoon Megi now stands at nine. The storm also brushed South Korea and is now predicted to make landfall in northern Japan on Friday.
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A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up in a packed railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Sunday killing nine people and wounding around 100, the military said.
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The death toll from heavy rain and flooding caused by Typhoon Megi climbed to nine in Japan and three in South Korea yesterday, while 134 Japanese children on a cram-school camp were stranded in a mountain village, police said.
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The death toll from the powerful earthquakes that rocked Japan over the weekend jumped to 31 on Tuesday as four people, mostly elderly, died from strokes or cerebral hemorrhages due to stress of their ordeal.
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About once a month since January 2002, Japan has recorded a group suicide, successful or attempted, where participants met on the Internet.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Thousands of weary and frightened  residents in northern Japan were spending a second night in  shelters, cars or in the open Sunday after Japan's deadliest  earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.
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A growing Japanese trend for internet-assisted group suicides claimed its largest single toll yesterday when seven people in their teens and early twenties were found dead in a car in mountains north of Tokyo.
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BAGHDAD - Baghdad police dug more bodies out of the rubble on Saturday, raising the death toll to at least nine after a suicide bomber blew up a gas tanker truck in the night.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, May 28 Kyodo - [Farm Minister] Matsuoka dies at hospital after attempting suicide  (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring Newsfile. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Seven people - four young men and three young women - have been found slumped over dead in a van outside Tokyo. Four charcoal stoves were also in the van; investigators think the young people died of carbon monoxide poisoning.