A 14-year-old boy was influenced by an Online game!
A 14-year-old boy shot dead his Family including his mother and two minor sisters, allegedly under the influence of online game PUBG, police of Pakistan's Punjab province said on Friday.
A week Ago, Nahid Mubarak, a 45-year-old health worker, was found dead along with her 22-year-old son Taimur and two daughters aged 17 and 11 in Lahore's Kahna area.
The teenage son who remained unhurt and is the single survivor of the family turned out to be the murderer, police said.
“The PUBG addict boy confessed to have killed his mother and siblings under the influence of the game. He has developed some psychological issues because of spending very long hours of the day playing the online game,” the statement said.
Police said Nahid was a divorcee and often used to admonish the boy for not paying attention to his studies and spending most of his time playing online game PUBG.
"On the day of the incident, Nahid scolded the boy over the matter. Later, the boy took out her mother's pistol from a cupboard and shot her and his three other siblings dead in their deep sleep.
The statement said, "Next morning, the boy raised an alarm and the neighbours called the police. The boy that time told police that he was on the upper storey of the house and did not know anything about the incident.”
The licensed pistol was acquired by Nahid for her family's protection, police said, adding more to it he said that the weapon is yet to be recovered from a drain where the boy had dumped it.
They said, the blood-stained cloth of the suspect has been recovered.
According to a report in Dawn newspaper, this is the fourth such crime related to the online game in Lahore. When the first case came into limelight in 2020, then police officer Zulfiqar Hameed had recommended a ban on the game to save teenagers lives, time and the future of millions.
It said, three young players of the game have died by suicide in the last two years and the police in its reports declared PUBG was the only reason behind the deaths.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has now officially included gaming disorder as a disease in the International Classification of Diseases.
Gaming disorder is actually defined as a pattern of behaviour characterised by impaired control over digital or video gaming, increasing priority given to it over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities.
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