A class 10 student hailing from West Bengal allegedly committed suicide by suffocating himself as part of the infamous 'Blue Whale' online game 14-year-old Ankan Dey choked himself to death by covering his head with a plastic bag tied tightly around his neck with a nylon cord In Dehradun, authorities of a popular school stopped a class 5 student from taking his life on Friday, August 12, after a student confessed to playing the game
In yet another incident, a class 10 student hailing from West Bengal allegedly committed suicide by suffocating himself on Saturday, following instructions on the infamous 'Blue Whale' online game.
14-year-old Ankan Dey choked himself to death by covering his head with a plastic bag tied tightly around his neck with a nylon cord, in the bathroom of his home in Anandpur town of West Midnapore district. His father, Gopinath, runs a cable TV business.
According to victim's father, on Saturday when he returned from school, her mother called Ankan for lunch, but he denied saying first he will take a bath. Later, he was found lying on the floor motionless and was immediately taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Ankan’s friends told police that he played Blue Whale Challenge, said Anandpur police superintendent Bharati Ghosh, adding that police are now probing the angle.
Earlier, a 14-year-old from Mumbai, Manpreet Sahas, had ended his life by jumping off a building on August 1. Manpreet, before jumping from the multi-storied building in Mumbai, took a photograph with a captioned which read, “The only thing you’d be left with is a picture of me.”
A 13-year-old boy on Thursday, August 10, had tried to jump off the third floor of his building in Indore. The incident took place at Chameli Devi School in Indore, when a class 8th student was seen climbing the railing of a balcony on the third floor of the school premises, but fortunately was saved after intervention from his friends and teachers.
In Dehradun, authorities of a popular school stopped a class 5 student from taking his life on Friday, August 12, after a student confessed to playing the game.
In this shadowy underground challenge-based game, teens are given tasks to complete that include things ranging from something mundane to inflicting self-harm. There are 50 levels, with the extreme nature of the tasks growing by each level. Game ‘administrators’ elicit the personal information of the kids to ensure they do not back out.
Parents across India have been advised by cyber-crime police and psychologists to keep an eye on their children and report any behavioural changes immediately.
