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A suicide chat group on Instagram involving a dozen girls from the south of England which led to serious self harm has been uncovered by police.
The group, made up of youngsters aged between 12 and 16, came to the attention of officers when three of them went missing.
They had travelled by train to meet London but were then found seriously unwell in a street and taken to hospital by ambulance.
The girls had met online and discussed suicide, according to a police briefing about the investigation, seen by the BBC.
The paper adds that peer-to-peer influence increased suicidal ideation amongst the children involved to the extent that several escalated to suicidal crises and serious self-harm .
BBC News
By Noel Titheradge
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Social media groups involving teenage girls that led to suicidal crises and serious self-harm have been uncovered by police, BBC News has learned.
Twelve girls, aged between 12 and 16 years old and from across southern England, were part of an Instagram chat group whose name refers to suicide.
The group was discovered when three of the girls went missing and were found seriously unwell in London.
Instagram says it found no suicide or self-harm related content in the group. Serious self-harm
BBC News has obtained a police briefing about the investigation which discovered the online groups.
Three missing girls were found ‘seriously unwell’ in the street after they created a ‘pact to die by suicide’, it has emerged.
The shocking details have been revealed by police investigating an online chat group that led to ‘suicidal crises’ among a young peer group.
Twelve girls, aged 12 to 16 from across the South of England, were part of a disturbing Instagram chat group that described its participants as a ‘Suicide Squad’.
Its existence was discovered when three of them travelled by train to Chingford, East London, and were found by officers in the street after being reported missing.
The shocking details have been revealed by police investigating an online chat group that led to ‘suicidal crises’ among a young peer group
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The adverts were found directing searchers to an Amazon page promoting ‘low prices for rope’ in a number of searches related to suicide.
The Silicon Valley giant is also facing calls from a grieving sister, who lost her brother to suicide last year, to provide stronger prompts to mental health services for vulnerable people searching suicide.