JHELUM: Two students of grade 11 and grade 12 at Government Girls Degree College Pind Dadan Khan in Jhelum were expelled from the college after they were found to have been playing the dangerous Blue Whale challenge, a game that encourages self-harm and eventual suicide among its victims.
The students had inflicted injuries on their arms with a blade.
After a tip-off from a student who had found out that the girls had been playing the game, the college principal Raheela Chandni called the students’ parents to explain the situation.
The principal told a private TV channel that she decided to expel the two girls after talking to their parents so as to “prevent other students of the college from being influenced” by the phenomenon.
One of the two girls had reached level 18 of the game, while the other was playing level 22. Both had made carvings on their arms using a sharp-edged tool. The Blue Whale game or Blue Whale Challenge is believed to be a suicide game wherein a group of administrators or a certain curator gives a participant a task to complete daily — for a period of 50 days — the final of which is the participant committing suicide. Participants are expected to share photos of the challenges/tasks completed by them.
The Blue Whale game or Blue Whale Challenge is believed to be a suicide game wherein a group of administrators or a certain curator gives a participant a task to complete daily — for a period of 50 days — the final of which is the participant committing suicide. Participants are expected to share photos of the challenges/tasks completed by them.
These daily tasks start off easy — such as listening to certain genres of music, waking up at odd hours, watching a horror movie, among others, and then slowly escalate to carving out shapes on one’s skin, self-mutilation and eventually suicide.
There is still uncertainty over how a participant plays the game.
