NUMATA, Gunma -- An 18-year-old youth committed suicide in a telephone booth here after inhaling a fatal amount of a toxic gas that appears to have been hydrogen sulfide, police said.

The teenager was found slumped over in the phone booth and his death was confirmed early Wednesday at a local hospital.

Two people in the area near the phone box were evacuated.

Police said they found a bucket containing a liquid and six types of pharmaceutical inside the phone box. The boy did not leave a suicide note, but posted a warning that he was using poisonous gas on the phone booth.

(Mainichi Japan) May 14, 2008

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