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Blue Whale game takes another life: Howrah boy jumps from school building
Two other students who were victims of this game were rescued by police
The game, created by a Russian, Philipp Budeikin, is directly targeting children and encouraging them to harm themselves over 50 stages culminating in suicide.
Three class IX students who have been playing the online Blue Whale Challenge game were on Tuesday rescued after one of them jumped from the first floor of their school building in Howrah district on Tuesday, police said.
The three boys, who were over-aged to be in class IX, were students of a state run high school in Bagnan.
Police said the teachers heard a thud at the fag end of school hours and found one of them lying on the ground and the two others were at the first floor from where he had jumped below.