Group says 11 farmers commit suicide
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At least 11 farmers have committed suicide in the past two days in a western Indian state after failing to repay bank loans because of crop failures, an activist group said Thursday.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in central Chile left at least 11 people dead and forced 30,000 to flee their inundated homes Wednesday, the government said.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, 28 May: Farm Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka attempted suicide in Tokyo on Monday, police sources said.  It is not immediately clear whether he remains alive.  (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring Newsfile.
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Japanese police say they are investigating a group suicide in which seven people who got acquainted through the Internet killed themselves.
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Eighteen people gathered in a mountain hostel in eastern Spain for a birthday party died in their sleep from an apparent gas leak, officials said Sunday.
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Four young men from the same rural Missouri county have committed suicide by hanging themselves in a similar fashion in the past five months, and authorities are investigating whether the cases are related.
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Suicide is one of the biggest killers of young men across Scotland, it is warned.
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A Swiss euthanasia group was suspected Saturday to have participated in more British attempted suicides than previously thought, the BBC reported.
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Japan's agricultural minister died Monday after reportedly hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in parliament in a political scandal, officials said.
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At least 11 people were killed and  nearly 200 injured on Wednesday when two Los Angeles commuter  trains collided after one struck an automobile left on the  tracks in what authorities called an aborted suicide attempt by  a "deranged" man.
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Two men who worked at West Virginia's Sago Mine during the January disaster that killed 12 miners have committed suicide in the past month, state police said Tuesday.
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A German meat distributor at the center   of a widening police probe into the sale of rotten meat and   vegetables has committed suicide, police in the southern city   of Munich said on Wednesday.
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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, has attempted suicide but his fate is unknown, Kyodo news agency said on Monday.
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The Malayalam film takes up the cause of farmers' suicides.
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Reports of four more deaths have brought to 12 the number of people who have died since the rains began.
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SAITAMA - Two of the nine people found dead Tuesday in apparent suicide pacts are believed to have tried to kill themselves together earlier this month in a Tokyo suburb, police said Wednesday.
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Four Britons have committed suicide with the help of doctors at a Swiss clinic in the last six weeks, a British voluntary euthanasia pressure group said to highlight their call for a law change.