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Father recalls daughters\u2019 gaming habit as police probe Ghaziabad sisters\u2019 deaths<\/p>\n
GHAZIABAD: The father of three minor sisters who allegedly jumped to their deaths from a ninth-floor flat in Ghaziabad early Wednesday said he was unaware that the online game his daughters were playing involved \u201ctasks\u201d, and recalled that the middle sister, Prachi, appeared to direct the other two.The girls \u2014 Nishika (16), Prachi (14) and Pakhi (12) \u2014 died after jumping from the balcony of their flat in Bharat City society under the Teela Mor police station limits around 2.15 am. <\/p>\n
‘Sorry Papa’: Suicide Note From Three Sisters In Ghaziabad Triggers Debate On Gaming Addiction<\/p>\n
They were rushed to a hospital in Loni, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.Chetan Kumar, the girls\u2019 father, said his daughters had been playing the game for nearly three years and were deeply influenced by Korean content. \u201cThey often said they wanted to go to Korea. I did not know that the game involved tasks. I came to know about it only after the police forensic team examined their mobile phones,\u201d he told news agency PTI.Recounting the night of the incident, Kumar said the family was asleep when the girls woke up on the pretext of drinking water, bolted the door from inside and jumped from the balcony. \u201cThey threw their mobile phones outside the room. The police later seized them,\u201d he said.Kumar said Prachi had once told him she was the \u201cboss\u201d and that her sisters followed her directions. \u201cI thought it was like the games we played in our childhood. I never imagined this could lead to such a tragedy,\u201d he said.Police officials said preliminary investigation suggested the sisters were addicted to an online Korean task-based interactive game and excessive mobile phone use. Assistant Commissioner of Police Atul Kumar Singh said the three girls did everything together \u2014 from eating and bathing to spending most of their time confined to their room.Deputy Commissioner of Police Nimish Patil said the girls had not attended school for the past two to three years and their education had been irregular even earlier. \u201cFamily members had restricted their mobile phone usage in recent days, which may have left them distressed,\u201d he said, adding that the probe was still at an early stage.Investigators recovered a diary from the girls\u2019 belongings containing a handwritten note that read, \u201cSorry, Papa, I am really sorry,\u201d along with a crying-face emoji. Police said the exact circumstances that led to the incident are being investigated and statements of family members are being recorded.An eyewitness told police that the incident unfolded suddenly, leaving no time for intervention.Police have not yet concluded whether the game directly prompted the act and said all angles are being examined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Father recalls daughters\u2019 gaming habit as police probe Ghaziabad sisters\u2019 deaths GHAZIABAD: The father of three minor sisters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13802,141997,163,85,46,142000,522,523,141998,141999],"class_list":["post-273852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-family-issues","tag-ghaziabad-sisters-death","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-korean-task-based-game","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-online-gaming-addiction","tag-teen-suicides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}