Amid rising concerns over adverse effect of the 'Blue Whale Challenge' — another student has attempted to end his life by following instructions given in the online suicide game.
Amid rising concerns over adverse effect of the 'Blue Whale Challenge' — another student has attempted to end his life by following instructions given in the online suicide game.
The incident took place in a school in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.
"From the third floor of the window we saw that a boy was trying to jump while two other students were trying to hold him, we rushed to save," said Farooq, a teacher from the school.
On Thursday, a 14-year-old boy from Solapur, who was on his way to Pune to complete a task given to him in the online game 'Blue Whale Challenge', was rescued by the police.
Last week, a 14-year-old boy allegedly ended his life by jumping off a building in Mumbai, reportedly becoming victim to the Blue Whale suicide challenge. The Class 9 student jumped off the fifth floor of the building in Sher-e-Punjab area of suburban Andheri in Mumbai.
Admitting to being the driving factor behind the suicides of youngsters playing the game, Philipp Budeikin, who claims to have created the game, says that the victims were just ‘biological waste’.
"Victims were ‘happy to die’ and I am ‘cleansing society’," Budeikin told police when he was arrested in May this year.
"Yes. I truly was doing that. Don’t worry, you’ll understand everything. Everyone will understand," said Budeikin in an interview earlier this year, when asked if he really pushed teenagers to their deaths.
"They were dying happy. I was giving them what they didn’t have in real life: warmth, understanding, connections," he said.
Budeikin, 21, is being held at Kresty Prison in St Petersburg for charges of inciting at least 16 teenage girls to kill themselves by taking part in his 'game', said media reports.
Rajya Sabha members have demanded action against online games like 'Blue Whale. The Kerala government has also said it would ask the Centre to ban the online 'Blue Whale' game in the country.
The Blue Whale Game is an Internet 'game' allegedly comprising a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators during a 50-day period, with the final challenge requiring the player to commit suicide.
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