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Man drinks perfume, eye drops in suicide attempt
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-03-11 09:13

A man was so depressed that his girlfriend left him for another man, he tried to commit suicide by drinking eye drops and a bottle of perfume.

Chen, a farmer from Jiutai, a city in Jilin province, came to Changchun, the province's capital, to find a job but failed. Later, he met the girl in a local Internet cafe, fell in love with her and they lived together.

They spent long days idling together but then she left him for another man.

To get her back, he went to her room, drank the first things he could find. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.

(East Asia Economic and Trade News)