Blue Whale’ suicide game linked to 150 teen deaths makes its way to United States

‘It is called The Blue Whale Game and is played via many social media platforms. Players are given a master who controls them for 50 days and each day they are given a task to complete.’

A potentially dangerous social media game, which has been 
linked to 130 teen deaths in Russia, is making its way to the UK, leading to schools issuing warnings to parents.

The game is called the ‘Blue Whale Game’ and is being played across various social media platforms by youngsters.

It involves players being given a master that will control them and make them do tasks every day for 50 days.

It seems like harmless fun but following investigations into the game in Russia, the game was found to be behind a large number of teen suicides.

According to reports, those who took their lives had completed smaller challenges in the ‘game’ over the 50 days and by the end of it, were encouraged to try to ‘win the game’ by killing themselves.

(Picture: East2West)

Veronika Volkova (Picture: East2West)

Teenagers are taking their own lives ‘as a result of social media game called Blue Whale’

Two schoolgirls, aged 15 and 16, fell to their deaths from a 14-storey block of flats, another, aged 15, fell from a fifth floor flat, while a 14-year-old girl died after being hit by a train.

Detectives are looking into the theory that they took part in tasks in the run-up to their deaths.

Yulia Konstantinova, 15, left a note on social media saying ‘end’ shortly after posting a picture with a blue whale while her friend Veronika Volkova, 16, wrote ‘Sense is lost… End.’ before she took her own life.

It was reported that two teenage boys were detained by police at the scene after allegedly filming the tragic double suicide.

The headteacher of Woodlands School in Basildon has now issued a letter to parents warning them about the dangerous game. (Picture: Google)

Yulia Konstantinova (Picture: East2West)

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a probe on ‘incitement to suicide’ regarding the pair’s death.

‘Investigators checked the scene,  the homes of the minors, and interviewed relatives and friends of the victims, to establish the motives,’ said a statement.

Particular attention during the investigation of the criminal case will be given to the study of their social contacts on the internet.’

In Krasnoyarsk, law enforcement  recently opened three criminal cases of incitement to suicide involving  schoolgirls via the groups in social media.

In all these cases, the teenagers were rescued.

Blue Whale posted by Yulia Konstantinova (Picture: East2West)

One local school director told police he had received an anonymous call saying a student had joined a ‘group of death’ and planned to kill herself soon.

The police identified the girl who explained that had  had joined a ‘game’ in social media network ‘Vkontakte’, and had been given ‘ tasks’ by the administrator of the group.

She did not obey the commands – but there are fears that others did.

In the Chita case, transport police confirmed that the so-called suicide game ‘Blue Whale’ is seen as a possible ’cause of death’.

A second girl had made plans to kill herself with the dead teenager, but changed her mind at the last moment.

Teenagers are urged to use a knife or razor to make the shape of a whale on their wrist or leg, say Russian reports.

They are also urged to watch horror movies all day, and to wake themselves at 4.20am, steps leading up to demands to take their own lives on the 50th day being in the game.

There was deep concern last year when there were fears that the sinister masterminds could be behind at least 130 suicides across Russia.

Source :  METROUK