Several incidents of suicide due to online games were also reported from Sri Lanka last season, and the most recent incident was reported from Jaffna yesterday (15). (Sri Lanka Latest News)
A 22-year-old student named Subaraja Eshilnath, who was a student of Jaffna University’s Kilinochchi campus, was addicted to computer games and died by hanging himself in his home.
Investigations suggest that he committed suicide following an order from a deadly computer game.
Experts have identified 11 such deadly computer games that take away young lives.
A dangerous aspect of this is that the games are created in such a way that the people engaged in those computer games are taken to death step by step.
They give various challenges to those who are involved in the game and the last challenge is suicide.
The games have been planned in such a way that it will be done within a short period of one or two months.
A large number of young people who engaged in such games have committed suicide, and in the six months from November 2015 to April 2016 alone, 130 young people worldwide committed suicide.
On March 13th, a student of a school in Jaffna tried to kill himself by jumping from the third floor of the school, and later investigations revealed that he was motivated to do so by playing a computer game.
