Falling into the trap of the Blue Whale Challenge, a second-year commerce student at a private college committed suicide in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Wednesday.
Falling into the trap of the Blue Whale Challenge, a second-year commerce student at a private college committed suicide in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Wednesday.
"Blue Whale - This is not a game but danger. Once you enter, you can never exit," wrote a 19-year-old Vignesh in a suicide note that the police found.
The police also found the telling image of a whale carved into Vignesh's left arm with "Blue Whale" written below it, reported NDTV.
This is the first suicide related to the online game that has been reported in Tamil Nadu.
The deadly online challenges players for over 50 days, wherein demanding them to complete tasks given by an anonymous controller.
The game firstly asks the player to draw a whale on a piece of paper, then carve a whale figure on their body, and then gives other tasks such as watching horror movies alone etc. The tasks include the final challenge to commit suicide.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT has already directed the internet majors - Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo - to immediately remove the links of the deadly Blue Whale Challenge, which has led several children in India and other countries to commit suicide.
On August 16, a student in Madhya Pradesh's Indore attempted to end his life by following instructions given in the online suicide game.
On August 10, 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.
Before that, Class 9 student allegedly ended his life by jumping off a building in Mumbai, reportedly becoming victim to the Blue Whale suicide challenge.
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.
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