ERODE: A 14-year-old boy committed
suicide
by hanging at Kallipalayam near Punjaipuliyampatty in
Erode district
on Monday night.
Police
said K Arun, 14, a native of Sulur in Coimbatore, was addicted to
PUBG game
and was getting treatment in a
hospital
to get over the game. PUBG was one of the Chinese apps banned by the Centre in the September first week.
“He was playing the game on his mobile phone. He was very upset when the game was banned. So he was coming to a hospital at Sulur to come out of the influence of the game,” Arun’s father Kandavel said.
Kandavel is working in a private company in Vandalur near Chennai and the boy was studying in a school there.
As doctors suggested new place would do good for his son, Kandavel rented a house at Kallipalayam and sent his son and wife Ramaprabha there.
On Monday evening, Ramaprabha went to Punjaipuliyampatty to buy grocery items leaving her son alone in home. When she returned around 9pm, she found her son was hanging from the ceiling using a nylon rope. With the help of neighbours, she brought Arun down and took him to a private hospital nearby.
However, doctors declared that he was brought dead.
After being alerted by hospital authorities, the Punjaipuliyampatty police registered a case and initiated an inquiry.