LAHORE: A young man killed four people after his family stopped him from playing the online popular game Players Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG).
The man identified as Rana Bilal killed his brother, sister, sister-in-law and friend in Nawakot area of Lahore. The CCTV footage of the incident shows the man opening indiscriminate firing in PUBG game style, killing four people and injuring his mother.
Police presented the suspect on Wednesday in a sessions court which granted two-day physical remand for the murders. The police requested his physical remand for interrogation. The investigation officer stated before the court that the weapon used in the crime is yet to be recovered for which his custody is needed.
During the course of the hearing, Bilal confessed to having committed the murders. “I am a TikTok and Facebook star. I was deceived and committed the murders in a fit of rage,” he admitted.
The suspect named Bilal said he told them not to play the game on his counter table. The suspect his family had sold his PUBG device and he came to know about it from a junkman.
Umar Farooq, a police official in the area, said the attacker used to play PUBG and was inspired by it. He was also a crystal meth addict.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Umar Baloch had earlier said that the accused was an addict of PUBG and his family members used to stop him from playing the game.
