Student 'out of danger' after noodle suicide bid

SHANGHAI A student who mixed a toxic chemical into a bowl of instant noodles in a desperate suicide bid is out of danger and has been discharged from hospital, doctors revealed yesterday.

The 23-year-old student, identified only as Li, 23, said she downed 25g of thallium trinitrate she purchased on the Internet last month because she was very depressed about her looks and tired of the world.

But after 23 days of treatment, medics at Nanfang Hospital in Guangzhou, where she was transferred to from a local hospital that lacked the facilities to help her, this week cleared her to return home with her parents to Suzhou, in Jiangsu province.