A 26-year-old US man is accused of attempting to lure women to his home for what police are calling a Valentine’s Day sex and suicide party.

AN Oregon man who used an internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine’s Day had been trying to persuade women for at least five years to engage in sex acts with him and then kill themselves, a sheriff said.

A man used an internet chatroom to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine’s Day involving as many as 32 people across the United States and Canada, police said.