TOYAMA--The body of a third-year female middle school student was found dead Tuesday morning in a park in Nyuzenmachi, Toyama Prefecture, in an apparent suicide.

According to police, the student's family found the 15-year-old girl hanged with a plastic cord around her neck and a metal ladder beside her. They immediately called the police.

The girl's family had begun searching for her at about 4:30 a.m., after finding her missing. She was discovered dead about 15 minutes later.

(Aug. 6, 2008)

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