Japanese mother and three children jump to death in 'family suicide'
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Police in Japan are probing a possible family suicide after a mother and her three small children plunged to their deaths from an apartment complex, they said on Monday.
The bodies of the 35-year-old woman and three youngsters - a seven-year-old boy, a girl aged six, and a two-year-old boy - were found near the entrance of the 14-storey building in Chiba, east of Tokyo, a police spokesman said.
The newspaper said the mother’s body was found on the ground, with the two older children on top of the entrance roof, while the two-year-old was found stuck in branches of a nearby tree.
Despite a high-quality healthcare system universally available, relatively few people with psychological problems seek treatment in Japan, where mental illness retains its stigma.
