THE ‘administrator’ of a sick suicide game named Blue Whale has been traced by police back to a Moscow postman. And he allegedly had more than 30 schoolgirls under his spell.
Ilya Sidorov, 26, has reportedly confessed he had conceived and created a social media game which set youths a series of increasingly risky dares — ending in their own suicides.
Police questioned Sidorov over allegedly instructing a 13-year-old girl in the remote village of Yetkul to jump under a passenger train.
The girl had been taken to hospital with cut wounds from an attempted suicide. Previous tasks he had allegedly set her included outlining a blue whale on her arm and inflicting self-harm.
Sidorov allegedly broke down under interrogation, admitting to ‘administrating’ a broader online ‘Blue Whale’ challenge.
The suicide game got its name from the way whales appear to beach themselves deliberately.
Its popularity has spread beyond the bounds of Russia, with related suicide attempts being reported in Spain, Portugal, France and Britain.
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