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A girl in India has committed suicide after watching TV reports that a physics experiment could bring about the end of the world, her father says.
Sixteen-year-old Chaya poisoned herself at her home in the northern city of Indore, Bihari Lal said.
He said Chaya had asked whether the "world would end" when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was switched on.
Some news channels had held discussions featuring doomsday predictions about the European experiment.
'Village would die'
The £5bn ($8.75bn) machine, which aims to recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang, was switched on early on Wednesday.
Set on the Swiss-French border, it is designed to smash protons together along a 27km-long tunnel with cataclysmic force and scientists hope it will shed light on fundamental questions in physics.
We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things
Bihari Lal
Father
Chaya's father, Bihari Lal, said his daughter - the eldest of his six children - had been frightened after watching local TV reports that the experiment would cause the "Earth to crack up and everybody in the village would die".
"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he told reporters.
In a report published earlier this year, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said the the collider presented "no conceivable danger".
The police in Indore has begun an investigation into Chaya's death.
Many people rushed to temples in various parts of India on Tuesday fearing the "world's end" after watching the reports, reports said.
A girl in India has committed suicide after watching TV reports that a physics experiment could bring about the end of the world, her father says.
Sixteen-year-old Chaya poisoned herself at her home in the northern city of Indore, Bihari Lal said.
He said Chaya had asked whether the "world would end" when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was switched on.
Some news channels had held discussions featuring doomsday predictions about the European experiment.
'Village would die'
The £5bn ($8.75bn) machine, which aims to recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang, was switched on early on Wednesday.
Set on the Swiss-French border, it is designed to smash protons together along a 27km-long tunnel with cataclysmic force and scientists hope it will shed light on fundamental questions in physics.
We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things
Bihari Lal
Father
Chaya's father, Bihari Lal, said his daughter - the eldest of his six children - had been frightened after watching local TV reports that the experiment would cause the "Earth to crack up and everybody in the village would die".
"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he told reporters.
In a report published earlier this year, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said the the collider presented "no conceivable danger".
The police in Indore has begun an investigation into Chaya's death.
Many people rushed to temples in various parts of India on Tuesday fearing the "world's end" after watching the reports, reports said.
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