Raigad landslide: How PUBG saved lives in Irsalwadi

Children had stayed up playing controversial game while families were dozing, were able to seek help after landslide buried hilltop hamlet

Kids who were gaming in the defunct primary school at the time of the landslide

The infamous online game PUBG: Battlegrounds inadvertently saved the lives of around 15 to 17 children and teenagers from the ill-fated hilltop village of Irsalwadi, who used to gather at the hamlet's primary school building every day to play the multiplayer game as well as Ludo until the wee hours.

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