GENEVA: Swiss police announced Tuesday that several people were taken into custody after the controversial Sarco suicide pod was used to end a woman’s...

The 'Sarco' suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.

GENEVA: Swiss police said on Tuesday (Sep 24) they arrested several people after a US woman used a controversial suicide pod to end her life. The space-age looking Sarco capsule, which replaces the oxygen inside it with nitrogen, causing death by hypoxia, was used on Monday at a forest location near t

Several people have been arrested in Switzerland after the so-called Sarco 'suicide pod' was used yesterday in the northern Schaffhausen canton.

Swiss police arrest several people after the controversial pod is used for the first time.

The US woman, who travelled to Switzerland for the purpose of 'death', initiated her dying process herself by pressing a button while lying in the capsule.

Police in Switzerland are investigating the alleged use of a suicide capsule to kill multiple people, including a 64-year-old woman who was an American citizen.

Swiss police intervenes after a person uses the Sarco suicide pod for the first time.

Police in northern Switzerland say several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a new “suicide capsule.”.