A 21-year-old committed suicide in India’s Uttar Pradesh state while playing the popular online game Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG).
As per reports, a 21-year-old man named Shivam hanged himself while playing PUBG.
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The victim was an IT graduate who moved to Kanpur to look for a job and was living at his grandmother’s house when he took the extreme step.
Family members of the deceased claimed that he was addicted to PUBG and used to play the online game for hours on his smartphone.
They claimed that he was playing PUBG in his room so they were not aware when he hanged himself from the ceiling fan after which they called police.
The post-mortem report confirmed that Shivam died of suicide.
PUBG is is an online multiplayer battle royale game that has billions of downloads and a huge fan base.
