Quadruple suicide in Japan

Tokyo - Four members of a family were found dead in a car parked on a remote Japanese mountain road yesterday in an apparent …

Tokyo - Four members of a family were found dead in a car parked on a remote Japanese mountain road yesterday in an apparent quadruple suicide, police said. The bodies of a 71-year-old man, his wife, 62, their son, 31, and the woman's brother, 67, were in a car in Saga Prefecture, south-west Japan, that had a hose running from the tail pipe into the vehicle, police said.

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