Andhra boy kills self after friends ‘mock’ him over defeat in PUBG : The Tribune India

Vijayawada, June 12

A teenager allegedly dedicated suicide right after his pals mocked him subsequent defeat in online game PUBG.

The incident was reported from Machilipatnam city of Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district on Sunday.

The 16-calendar year-outdated felt reportedly humiliated after his pals mocked him when he lost the on line recreation. He came dwelling and allegedly hanged himself to the ceiling admirer.

The boy is son of Shantiraj, a neighborhood leader of Congress party and was addicted to taking part in PUBG. He played the sport with his pals on Sunday. When he lost the video game, his mates ridiculed him. He felt humiliated more than this and resorted to the serious phase.

Police shifted the entire body for autopsy and took up investigation.

District Congress president Tantia Kumari, who consoled the boy’s family, later on demanded that the point out and the central authorities should really ban PUBG like games as it is saying life.

PUBG was banned in the nation in 2019 but recently it designed a comeback with a distinctive identify.

Final week, in Lucknow, a 16-calendar year-previous boy allegedly shot his mother working with the licenced pistol of his father, who is in the Military, mainly because she stopped him from playing on line online games like PUBG. The boy hid her overall body within their residence for three times using place freshener to mask the odor, according to UP Law enforcement. He also threatened his 10-year-aged sister that he would eliminate her if she informed anyone about the murder, law enforcement reported.

In April, a 12-12 months-previous boy from Bengaluru allegedly created a bomb risk get in touch with to the Railway Law enforcement Helpline and claimed to have saved a bomb at the Yelahanka railway station. The authorities afterwards located it to be a hoax. Boy’s motive was to quit his classmate from boarding the Kacheguda Categorical at the station as he would then shed his partner in PUBG and would have to end actively playing the activity. IANS