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| Subject: Political System Which Nurtures Suicide Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:51 pm | |
| Small town alarmed by suicide cluster
BRIDGEND, Wales - Seven young people have apparently killed themselves in the last 12 months in this South Wales town that once thrived on coal mining. Adults are desperate to make it stop.
The rash of suicides - and front-page news stories about other young people whose suicides were prevented by last-minute intervention - seems to be the only topic under discussion in the cafes and shops of this town of 40,000.
"People are saying it might be some sort of cult, but we don't know," said Luke Wills, 25. "There is something amiss, but we don't know what."
Police say there appears to be no common link between the deaths. But at least one newspaper published a photograph of two of the dead together, fuelling speculation of suicide pacts struck among friends linked by internet social networking sites.
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