11-12 months-Outdated Boy Dies: 11-year-old boy dies in try to repeat suicide he watched on reels in UP | Lucknow Information

KANPUR: Emulating a suicide prank that he noticed on social media turned deadly for an 11-year-old boy in UP’s Hamirpur district when the noose he was enjoying with tightened and choked him to dying.
The sufferer, Nikhil alias Rajju, tied a towel to the hook within the ceiling of his room, made a noose on the different finish and hanged himself. Earlier than he may realise that the prank had gone awry, it was too late.
Nikhil’s father Awadhesh Sahu confirmed to the police that his son had watched the prank on social media.Police later discovered the video within the watchlist of the household’s cell phone.
Awdhesh, who runs a constructing materials store, instructed police after getting back from faculty on Thursday afternoon Nikhil began watching reels on a cellular.
“He tried to emulate a suicide prank after seeing the reels. The noose tightened round his neck. We rushed him to a close-by hospital the place medical doctors declared him useless,” he stated.
Nikhil was the eldest amongst two brothers and a sister.
Hamirpur SP Deeksha Sharma stated when the cellular was scanned, a video on suicide pranks was discovered on his YouTube watchlist.
“We enchantment to all mother and father to observe their youngsters intently in order that they don’t watch something harmful,” Sharma stated. The supervisor of the varsity the place Nikhil studied stated he was a promising scholar.