{"id":2465,"date":"2017-09-05T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2018-02-01T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:38:06","slug":"blue-whale-challenge-jodhpur-girl-attempts-suicide-jumping-hills-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/blue-whale-challenge-jodhpur-girl-attempts-suicide-jumping-hills-rescued\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Whale challenge: Jodhpur girl attempts suicide by jumping from a cliff, rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jaipur: <\/strong>A girl student of class 10 jumped from the hills near Mandore in Jodhpur in order to complete a \u2018level\u2019 of deadly online game ‘Blue Whale’ around 11 pm on Monday. The 17-year-old girl is the daughter of a BSF Jawan.<\/p>\n According to the police, the girl is a resident of Mandore area in Jodhpur. She had inflicted self-harm using knives in the recent past. Police said that she had also drawn a whale with a knief on her hand to win one of the challenges.<\/p>\n In the last stage of the game, she was asked to jump from a hill. She left her home in Mandore on a scooty and reached nearby Kalyan \u2013 Sidhhanath hills.<\/p>\n In order to complete the challenge, she jumped from the hills, but fell into a lake.<\/p>\n Some pilgrims, including Omprakash and Vikram Singh, who were returning home after visiting a nearby temple saw the girl and rescued her. They then informed the police.<\/p>\n This is the second of case of children risking their lives to complete the Blue Whale Challenge in Rajasthan.<\/p>\n On August 25, Jaipur police rescued a Jaipur boy from Mumbai.<\/p>\n The teenager fled from his home, reached Mumbai and bought a knife so that he could complete a challenge of Blue Whale game, but thanks to the promptness of Jaipur police, he was found before he could harm himself and brought back.<\/p>\n Police officials said that the boy was to inflict injuries on himself, using the knife and then commit a suicide act by jumping off a building, but the police managed to locate him on the basis of his mobile phone location and rescued him. He was handed over to family members.<\/p>\n The Blue Whale Challenge is a morbid social media \u2018game\u2019 which targets vulnerable teens and pushes them to inflict self-harm and ultimately suicide. The challenge involves 50 tasks, which are given by an administrator or curator, which have to be completed one by one.<\/p>\n The cases of children falling prey to Blue Whale Challenge have been reported across the country.<\/p>\n