According to official sources, while purportedly playing the ‘Blue Whale challenge’, the Indian student was holding his breath for two minutes which reportedly led to his unfortunate demise.
Paruchuri Abhijit, a student from Andhra Pradesh studying in the US was found dead in a forest. He was murdered on Univeristy Campus and the dead body was dumped in a car in the forest.
According to the Tippecanoe County Coroner's Office, officials were called around to 500 Allison Road in West Lafayette for a possible dead body. Upon arrival, a "college-aged male" was found deceased on Purdue's campus.
"Recent reports including in media of the handling of Ms Jaahnavi Kandula’s death in a road accident in Seattle in January are deeply troubling," the Consulate General of India stated on X (formerly Twitter).