The 20-year-old had locked himself in his room. After he did not answer, his family members broke the door and found his body inside.
According to Harbanspura Police, the BSc student’s family said he was quite fond of the popular video game PUBG. They said he was even training to become a commando.
The deceased was the oldest among the four siblings. The police have handed over the body to the family after conducting its postmortem examination.
The same day, another teen was found dead at his house in Lahore’s Ichra.
According to the police, the teenager took his own life after his mother stopped him from playing PUBG on his mobile phone.
He had a glass of milk in his hand which had slipped while he was playing the game.
Following this, his mother scolded and told him to put his phone away. The 15-year-old got angry, slammed his phone into the wall and left the room.
PUBG, which has been developed by a South Korean company, is a 2017 survival game in which players are dropped onto an island to battle it out against others.
The multiplayer game allows players from all over the world to compete against each other or in teams. Players attack and kill each other in the game and the more you win, the higher you rank. It has garnered 34.2 million downloads worldwide so far.
