Residents evacuated as Osaka schoolboy fatally gasses self with hydrogen sulfide in plastic bag

The Mainichi Shimbun
May 6, 2008
Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080506p2a00m0na015000c.html

TAKATSUKI, Osaka -- A 17-year-old schoolboy fatally gassed himself here Tuesday by sticking his head in a plastic bag filled with lethal hydrogen sulfide, police said.

The boy's father found the third-year high school student in a room of the family home with the plastic bag over his head.

The boy was confirmed dead shortly after he was discovered collapsed at about 9:20 a.m.

Police temporarily evacuated 14 people living in the area as a precautionary step, but nobody else was injured when the boy took his life.

Police said the plastic bag found over the boy's head showed traces of hydrogen sulfide that had been produced by blending various types of detergents. The boy left a suicide note, but the details have not been disclosed.

The boy's death is the latest in a spate of hydrogen sulfide deaths across the nation.

(Mainichi Japan) May 6, 2008