TOKYO - A 16 year old Japanese schoolboy committed hara kiri yesterday by disembowelling himself with a sword at a railway station. A spokesman for the Fukushima prefectural police department said the boy was rushed to hospital but later died. Kyodo News said that some 200 people witnessed the ritual suicide.
Boy (16) commits hara-kiri
TOKYO - A 16 year old Japanese schoolboy committed hara kiri yesterday by disembowelling himself with a sword at a railway station…
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