PUBG Claims Lives of Two Youths in Mukalmua, Assam

GUWAHATI: In a tragic incident, two boys died today after falling off a boat in a pond while playing PUGB online game in Mukalmua, Nalbari, Assam.

Local people informed that the two boys were playing PUBG on mobile phones on a boat in a pond near their home when they fell off the boat.

After some time, local people recovered them and sent them to the nearby Mukalmua Primary Health Centre where they were declared brought dead.

" We recovered them in the pond with the help of a fishing net. They were senseless when we found them. Both hugged each other under the water," said a local people.

The deceased were identified as Mujakkir and Rekibuddin and both were 11th standard students.

Earlier in 2020, a student from West Bengal''s Nadia district to take his own life, police said on Sunday. Pritam Halder, a 21-year-old ITI student, was found hanging in his house in Purba Lalpur in the Chakdaha police station area, police informed.

The deceased's mother said that Pritam went to his room after having breakfast on Friday morning. When she went to call him for lunch, his room was locked from inside.

After repeated bangings when he did not open the door, the youth's mother called the neighbors who broke into the room and found him hanging from the ceiling fan. The mother has claimed that her son was apparently frustrated for not being able to play the game.

She has said that he would play the game every night, and the inability to play the Chinese-made game after the Government's ban drove him to take a drastic step.

Meanwhile, police said they have registered a case of unnatural death. Police said that after talking to the family members, they believe that the student killed himself for not being able to play the mobile game, which was blocked by the government on Wednesday.

Pritam's father Biswajit Halder is a retired army man and the mother is a homemaker. It needs mention here that the Information and Technology Ministry on Wednesday banned the hugely popular gaming app PUBG Mobile and 117 other Chinese-linked mobile applications.

The mobile apps banned by the government had "issues around security, surveillance and data privacy of Indian users," IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

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