Internet love ends in double suicide
A young couple who met online a year ago have committed suicide in southern Vietnam after the man's family objected to the relationship, an official said on Wednesday.
Nguyen Thi Lua, 19, from the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City and Ho Thinh Minh, a 25-year-old Vietnamese- American man, met a year ago in an Internet chatroom, said a police officer from Thu Duc district.
Minh came to Vietnam with his family for the Tet lunar new year holiday and spent a number of days visiting Lua, said the police officer, who declined to be named.
His family stayed in their province of origin, 50 kilometres north of Ho Chi Minh city, but went to the city in the last week of January to tell their son to end the relationship.
"Minh was instructed to return with his parents to Tra Vinh province," said the official.
The man disobeyed his parents, and the two lovers drank a fatal dose of herbicide on Saturday afternoon and died two hours later in hospital.
"They must have loved each other which led them to commit suicide together," said the police officer. "It is not a crime, so we will not make further investigations."
Sapa-DPA (.za) - February 12, 2003.
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