Blue whale game

The blue whale game is the talk of the town now a days because this game has killed a lot of people all around the world. This game is also named as blue whale challenge. It is an internet game which consist series of task given by administrator to players. The duration of this game is 50 days. Everyday administrator gives task to the player. On last day i.e, on 50th day player get the task to commit suicide.

Blue whale game was started in 2013 by a Russian group “F57” of the VKontakte social network. A psychology student named Philipp Budeikin was the first person who got trapped in this game and committed suicide and claimed that he invented the game. Although according to him, purpose of this game was to ‘clean’ the society.

In Russia,2016 Blue whale game became popular among teenagers after a journalist brought attention to it through an article. Later, Philipp Budeikin was arrested and found guilty for death of more than 16 teenagers.

REPORTED CASES

Blue whale game has killed many teenagers, therefore here are some cases which have been reported from different countries.

Russia

Russian authorities have investigated approximately 130 suicide related cases.

In February 2017, two friends Yulia Konstantinova and Veronika Volkova of age 15 years and 16 years respectively had threw themselves from 14-story building in Irkutsk, Siberia. They both left message on their social media and the message was ‘End’.

Kenya

On 3rd May, a school student Jamie Njenga committed suicide by hanging himself on the balcony of a hotel however hotel owned by his grandfather.

Paraguay

Federico Pedro, a 22 years old computer scientist pierced his chest after playing Blue whale game.

India

Recently on 30 July 2017, in Mumbai a 14 year old boy committed suicide by jumping from 7th floor of a building. Therefore, CM of Maharashtra blame Blue whale game.

Saudi Arabia

A 13 years old boy Metlaq Affas Albugami committed suicide in his room. He used his Playstation wires to committed suicide. Surprisingly this is the first case in the country.