Another PUBG addict shot dead his mother and siblings, after being influenced by the game. The initial investigations revealed that 18-year-old Ali Zain was addicted to the game and shot dead his mother, two sisters and a brother imagining that they would be resurrected like in the game.
On January 19th 2022, the police had found bullet-riddled bodies of a mother and her three children from a house in Lahore. The murderer turned out to be the surviving 14-year-old son, Zain. Further investigations into the matter revealed that Zain, after getting frustrated at the game, shot his family at point-blank range inside the house.
According to the Police, after this, Zain went to sleep in the lower part of the house and later went into hiding in a village near Faisalabad.
On account of this and similar recent incidents owing to the game’s addiction, the Punjab Police has decided to approach the federal government to put a ban on the famous battle-royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) to prevent other similar acts of violence.
Last year, in another shocking incident, in an attempt to imitate a scene from the online game PUBG, a man killed two people while injuring three more in the process.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online multiplayer game created by a South Korean company, as per the experts the game adversely affects the behavior of those addicted to it and the recently reported events bear witness to this claim.