Playing 'Blue Whale Challenge', 13-Year-Old Allegedly Attempts Suicide In MP

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Apparently playing the infamous online game `Blue Whale challenge', a 13-year-old boy today tried to jump off the third floor of his school in Indore, but fellow students thwarted his attempt, police said.

The students informed their teachers, who approached the police. "Initial investigation suggests that the boy had been playing the Blue Whale game on his father's cellphone for the last couple of days," Dwivedi said.

The boy, student of class VII, climbed the railing of a balcony on the third floor of Chamali Devi Public School at Rajendra Nagar, and tried to jump off, but other students pulled him back, Additional Superintendent of Police Rupesh Kumar Dwivedi said. (Pic: Representational)

The macabre game, which is said to have originated in Russia, is suspected to have claimed a teenager's life in Mumbai recently.

School principal Sangeeta Poddar said the boy was too frightened after his thwarted suicide attempt. He told the teachers that he had been playing Blue Whale game for the last couple of days.

"We think he was tense in the last couple of days, thinking about committing suicide to accomplish the final 50th task of the game," said the police officer. Police were thinking of taking the boy to a psychiatrist for counselling, the ASP said.