The administrator of the sick Blue Whale suicide game has been traced by police back to a Moscow postman. And he allegedly had more than 30 schoolgirls under his spell. <\/p>\n
Ilya Sidorov, 26, reportedly has confessed to conceiving and creating thesocial media game that gave youths a series of increasingly risky dares ending in their own suicides. <\/p>\n
Police questioned Sidorov over allegedly instructing a 13-year-old girl in the remote village of Yetkul to jump under a passenger train. <\/p>\n
The girl had been taken to a hospital with cuts from an attempted suicide. Previously, he allegedly tasked her withoutlining a blue whale on her arm and inflicting self-harm. <\/p>\n
Sidorov allegedly broke down under interrogation, admitting to administrating a broader online Blue Whale challenge. <\/p>\n
Sidorov has since been detained and extradited to Chelyabinsk in the Urals, where he faces charges relating to inciting the schoolgirls death. <\/p>\n
A police spokeswoman said mobile phones, a tablet computer and several SIM cards have been seized as evidence. <\/p>\n
The suspect clarified that he is the administrator of a so-called suicide group that had 32 members, all of them underage, the spokeswoman said. He assigned them tasks aimed at injuring themselves in order to incite suicide. <\/p>\n
But Sidorov is not the only suicide-game administrator to have been arrested. <\/p>\n
Philipp Budeikin, 21, is also being held by Russian police, charged with coaxing up to 16 schoolgirls to kill themselves. <\/p>\n
The suicide game got its name from the way whales appear to beach themselves deliberately. <\/p>\n
Its popularity has spread beyond the bounds of Russia, with related suicide attempts being reported in Spain, Portugal, France and Britain. <\/p>\n
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