Three sisters, aged 16, 14, and 12, died by suicide after reportedly jumping from the ninth floor of their apartment building in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. According to police, who spoke with Assistant Police Commissioner Atul Kumar Singh, the incident occurred around midnight. The girls were found locked inside a puja room when security guards alerted authorities to the noise they heard.
All three girls were living with their father, a forex trader, and their mothers in the apartment building. Their elder sister was from their father’s first marriage, while the two younger ones came from his second marriage. Police reported that all three had been with their mothers at the time of the incident. They used a chair to jump out of an open window one by one.
The eldest girl, aged 16 and still enrolled in fourth grade, was reportedly the only sister who could read and write Korean characters adopted from an online game. She and her younger sisters were found to have left behind diary notes, expressing their inability to quit the game. Their drawings contained caricatures of crying princesses labeled as “Korean princesses.”
According to Singh, the family members had been aware of the girls’ gaming habits but couldn’t stop them entirely. They confiscated phones multiple times and even went so far as to retrieve them from bathrooms together. The diaries revealed detailed accounts of their lives and obsessions with the game.
The police have seized the sisters’ mobile phones for analysis, aiming to determine if online gaming played a role in this tragic event.