By Abdullah Seif

Okaz/Saudi Gazette

BISHA — Security authorities are investigating the suicide of a 17-year-old girl in Bisha who reportedly hanged herself inside her home on Sunday. The body of the young girl, who was not identified, was taken to King Abdullah General Hospital in the city while the Public Attorney's office has opened an investigation to reveal the circumstances behind the death of the young girl.

Sources close to the family suspected PubG computer game to be behind the suicide of the girl.

A relative of the girl said the family was out of the house and the girl was alone with her younger sister and the housemaid.

The younger one missed her older sister and started looking for her all over the house when she found her body dangling from a robe on a staircase leading to the roof of the house.

The relative said the girl was not suffering from any physical or psychological diseases and had never been subjected to family violence.

In a message through Okaz/Saudi Gazette, her father warned the parents against the dangers of the computer games and apps on the children and the young men and women and asked them to watch what their children were playing on their computers and mobile phones.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PubG) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of South Korean video game company Bluehole. The game is based on previous mods that were created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Roayle, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round.