A teenage girl in India has killed herself after reportedly being traumatised by reports that the Large Hadron Collider "Big Bang" experiments may have apocalyptic consequences.
The girl's father told reporters his daughter, Chayya, committed suicide after seeing the doomsday predictions on Indian television.
"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on Sept. 10," he said.
"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail."
The 16-year-old was rushed to hospital but later died.
Over the past two days reports of experiments to be conducted in a huge particle accelerator buried under the border between France and Switzerland have caused furor throughout deeply religious and superstitious India.
Thousands of people in the country's east rushed to temples to pray ofr salvation, while outhers stockpiled food in anticipation of the global disaster, which some predict the Large Hadron Collider will cause.
Leading physicists and researchers have dismissed the doomsday predictions and insist the experiment is safe.
