{"id":11218,"date":"2018-09-06T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T09:53:40","slug":"momo-game-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/momo-game-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dubai Police Has Just Issued A Warning Over The Dangerous Momo Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blue Whale game is a twisted suicide\u00a0challenge perpetrated via social media where vulnerable teenagers are goaded to take their own lives.<\/p>\n
This horrifying game has been linked to more than 100 suicides across the world, and the Dubai Police now fear that it might just have come to the emirate.<\/p>\n
A recent case of suicides by two\u00a0Filipino students, a girl and a boy aged 15 and 16, have left the police baffled.<\/p>\n
The teenagers died after allegedly committing suicide a day apart. According to the Dubai police, both the students talked about committing suicides on their social media accounts.<\/p>\n
This is probably the reason why\u00a0sources are linking the death of the second teenager to the Blue Whale suicide challenge. Police, however, has yet to confirm this.<\/p>\n
According to Gulf News<\/a>, both were class 10 students of the United International Private School in Muhaisnah, but were not related to each other.<\/p>\n The police told the publication that they were alerted about a suicide\u00a0incident in Al Ghusais on Tuesday. The victim, a girl,\u00a0was depressed and suicidal and had attempted something similar in the past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read More: The Horrifying “Blue Whale” Social Media Game Has Been Linked With Two Child Suicides In Dubai Blue Whale game is a twisted suicide\u00a0challenge perpetrated via social media where vulnerable teenagers are goaded to take their own lives. This horrifying game has been linked to more than 100 suicides across the world, and the … ","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2018\/09\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Feature-Image.jpg?mtime=20180906115045","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2018\/09\/_featuredImage\/Feature-Image.jpg?mtime=20180906115045 880w","legacy_meta_tags":" Blue Whale game is a twisted suicide\u00a0challenge perpetrated via social media where vulnerable teenagers are goaded to take their own lives.<\/p>\n This horrifying game has been linked to more than 100 suicides across the world, and the Dubai Police now fear that it might just have come to the emirate.<\/p>\n A recent case of suicides by two\u00a0Filipino students, a girl and a boy aged 15 and 16, have left the police baffled.<\/p>\n The teenagers died after allegedly committing suicide a day apart. According to the Dubai police, both the students talked about committing suicides on their social media accounts.<\/p>\n This is probably the reason why\u00a0sources are linking the death of the second teenager to the Blue Whale suicide challenge. Police, however, has yet to confirm this.<\/p>\nRead More: The Horrifying “Blue Whale” Social Media Game Has Been Linked With Two Child Suicides In Dubai<\/a><\/h4>\n
Who were the victims?<\/h3>\n