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Blue Whale Challenge: Engineering, Class 10 students hooked to game rescued

The game involves people being given tasks to complete over 50 days and ends with their suicide

Blue Whale challenge: Check your child's texts, call logs, says Goa police
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The game, created by a Russian, Philipp Budeikin, is directly targeting children and encouraging them to harm themselves over 50 stages culminating in suicide.

Agencies Cuttack/Jodhpur
In yet another instance of suicide attempts due to the deadly Russian game — Blue Whale Challenge — the Cuttack and Jodhpur Police have rescued an engineering student and a Class X student respectively. 

An engineering student from Cuttack, who was hooked to the dreaded Blue Whale game, was rescued by the police on Tuesday and handed over to his parents after counselling.

Meanwhile, a girl studying in Class X tried to commit suicide by jumping into a Kailana lake in Jodhpur, but was rescued just on time.

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