Man balks at suicide bid and calls police to save 3 others
Mainichi
OSAKA -- One of the four people who attempted to gas themselves by burning briquettes in a sealed apartment here fled from the room and alerted police, who rescued the three others on Wednesday, police said.
Local police are questioning the four -- three men and a woman -- on suspicion of being involved in a suicide attempt.
The four who got acquainted with each other through an Internet bulletin board met at JR Shin-Osaka Station on Monday. They went to an apartment in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, took sleeping pills and burned briquettes in the room in a suicide pact, investigators said.
However, one of the three -- a 33-year-old unemployed man from Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture -- balked early Wednesday morning, fled from the room and alerted police....the rest...