Nine Japanese dead in suspected suicide pacts
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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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TOKYO : Nine people were found dead on Tuesday from carbon monoxide poisoning in rented vehicles near Tokyo in a record toll from the growing number of suicides in Japan set up through the Internet.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine elderly people, injuring around 1,000 and triggering a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
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They sent nine suicide bombers, killed more than 40 people, claimed to have shot down a British military plane and threatened to wash the streets with blood.
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet committed suicide on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support has already slumped ahead of a July election.
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Japan&#39;s government on Sunday said it is now certain that a 24-year-old Japanese backpacker taken hostage in Iraq has been killed.
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The Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaida associate Abu Musab Zarqawi took credit on a Web site Tuesday for the beheading of a Japanese hostage, Kyodo reported.
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The number of Japanese who killed themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising to account for more than a third of the total, police said on Thursday.
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Nine people were found dead in two rented cars yesterday, with the windows sealed from the inside and charcoal burners at their feet, in what Japanese police are calling modern Japan&#39;s largest suicide pact.
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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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Typhoon Shanshan, which hit Japan over the weekend, has left nine people dead and more than 200 injured.
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A suicide bomber in a Daihatsu minivan  packed with explosives was responsible for an attack at the  Australian embassy in Jakarta on Thursday that killed nine  people, Indonesian police said on Friday.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A suicide truck bomber killed nine people and wounded 22 in an attack on the police headquarters of an Iraqi town near the Syrian border on Thursday, police said.
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Mass suicide is suspected after Japanese police find seven people dead in a van in mountains near Tokyo.
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TOKYO - Four men were found dead Sunday in a sealed Tokyo apartment littered with charcoal stoves, a scene police said appeared to be Japan&#39;s latest suicide pact.
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Indonesian police say they&#39;ve confirmed the identity of the suicide bomber who attacked the Australian embassy in Jakarta last month, killing himself and nine others.
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Japan's government said it was trying to confirm news reports that the Islamic militant group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi had taken a Japanese citizen hostage in Iraq and threatened to behead him.