Suspected blue whale death in Kerala

Puducherry: A 21-year-old Pondicherry University student was found hanging from a tree near his hostel room on the campus late Thursday night. It is suspected to be another case of  Blue Whale challenge online game which claimed the lives of many teenagers around the world. The deceased was identified as Sashikant Bori, a first year MBA student hailing from Assam. “He said goodbye, we will meet tomorrow and we don’t know what happened after that,” said a student.

A police team reached the spot and the body was sent to postmortem to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute at Kathirgamam here. It was Bori’s friends who had informed the police that he was playing Blue Whale game. “Though we are not sure whether the game claimed his life or not, Bori sent the link of the Blue Whale game to his friends from Assam through WhatsApp. He didn’t talk with his friends for the last one week and skipped classes for the last three days,” said Subhro Roy, a  student from Assam.