Police in India said they believed three sisters jumped to their deaths because their parents took their phones – the girls were obsessed with a Korean mobile game
The photo shows three young sisters who jumped to their deaths after their parents took their phones.
Siblings Pakhi, 12, Prachi, 14, and Vishika, 16, threw themselves from the ninth floor of an apartment block before their parents desperately tried to break through a locked balcony door.
The teenagers gathered on their balcony in Bharat City, Ghaziabad, around 2am on Wednesday before tragically jumping one by one. The girls also left a chilling note reading: “Sorry, Dad” before their tragic deaths. The screams were loud enough to be neighbors and the parents could be heard down the street, but it was too late to save the girls.
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Police in India said they believe the tragedy was linked to the children’s obsession with a Korean online game. The heartbroken parents discovered an eight-page diary entry, which allegedly contained messages about Korea and the girls’ thoughts that their mother and father were trying to stop their obsession.
The message read: “How are you going to make us leave Korean? Korean was our life, so how dare you make us leave our life? You didn’t know how much we loved them. Now you’ve seen the proof. Now we are convinced that Korean and K-Pop are our lives. We didn’t love you and your family as much as we loved the Korean actor and the K-Pop group. Korean was our life.”
Police said the sisters stopped going to school almost two years ago and had become “highly addicted” to a mobile game. Their parents had reportedly recently limited their screen time, which researchers say could have caused the fatal jump.
Police said they are examining their phones and diaries to determine the exact nature of the game, which is not mentioned in press reports.
In the eight-page letter, the girls had also listed other shows, movies and culture characters from other countries that they were also obsessed with. These include Peppa Pig, Ariel and Elsa. The Covid pandemic is also said to have intensified children’s isolation and play habits.
In a shocking note, the girls also claimed that their parents did not allow them to take their gaming obsessions to their fourth sister Devu. The note read, “You introduced her to Bollywood, which we hated more than our lives.”
It added, “We felt bad about this, so we made a decision and made Devu our enemy, because no one at home allowed her to be like us. So from that day on, we separated Devu from ourselves and told her that we are Korean and K-Pop, and you are Indian and Bollywood.”
Grieving father Chetan Kumar said, “Neither a parent nor a child should have to go through this. Children should not be allowed to play such games. I would never have allowed them if I had known.”
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