GENEVA, Switzerland — A 64-year-old American woman took her own life inside a controversial suicide capsule at a Swiss woodland retreat, with police on Tuesday saying several people had been arrested.

The space-age-looking Sarco capsule, which fills with nitrogen and causes death by hypoxia, was used outside a village near the German border on Monday.

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