Hong Kong police probe second Facebook suicide
group
HONG KONG (AFP) - – Hong Kong police said Friday they are
hunting the creator of a second Facebook group encouraging
teenagers to commit suicide.
A force spokeswoman said experts from its Commercial Crime
Bureau were investigating a social networking group named "I have
to (practise) suicide" after a page with an almost identical name
was exposed earlier this week.
"We are now investigating the two cases. No one has been
arrested so far," she told AFP.
The new group emerged on Wednesday and nearly 100 people signed
up, according to media reports.
"What is the meaning of life...my beloved is in love with
another...while everything adults do is right, what we do is all
wrong...no one knows we exist, why don't we all commit suicide?"
the group wrote on its site.
It was created after the media reported this week that another
Facebook group -- "I have to practise suicide", with no brackets in
the title -- had called on its 190 members to kill themselves on
December 21, and was linked to an attempted suicide.
The South China Morning Post said Friday that the police had
already traced the creator of "I have to practise suicide".
It cited police sources saying the culprit was a local teenager
who set up the site for fun.
The group came to light after police launched an investigation
into the case of a 15-year-old boy who tried to throw himself off
the roof of his school two weeks ago. The boy was a member of the
group.