Mastermind of online suicide game is arrested in Russia

The man allegedly behind a new teenage online death group, similar to the 'Blue Whale' game, has been detained in Russia.
Postman Ilya Sidorov, 26, confessed to seeking to coax its members - believed to be as many as 32 mainly underprivileged schoolchildren - to commit suicide.
The sobbing Moscow resident told state investigators he developed an elaborate online game involving 50 tasks which culminated in the teenagers killing themselves.
He broke down as he was interrogated on his role in demanding that a schoolgirl should 'jump under a metro train at a certain station'.
Sidorov was asked in a shocking video questioning: 'What was the final task? How does the game end?'
He replied: 'To commit suicide.'
Similar 'Blue Whale' groups have provoked acute fear among parents and teachers in Russia amid claims they have led to dozens of teenage suicides.
There have also been warnings in the UK and other Western countries that these online death groups - playing mind games with vulnerable teenagers - are spreading from Russia.
Another suicide game 'administrator' Philipp Budeikin, 21, is being held by the Russians on charges of inciting at least 16 schoolgirls to kill themselves by taking part in his social media 'Blue Whale' game.
He is detained pending investigations until August.
Reports say Sidorov - described as a 'humble postman' was held on a rooftop in Moscow before police took him to Chelyabinsk region in the Urals, where he is accused of encouraging a 13 year old girl from the village of Yetkul to kill herself.
The girl completed a succession of 'tasks' set for her by the menacing postman.
These included drawing a blue whale on her arm, to cutting herself.
'In May this year a 14-year-old girl from Chelyabinsk region was taken to hospital with slash wounds after attempting to commit suicide,' said Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Colonel Irina Volk.
'The underage girl was a member of a so-called death group in a social network.
'She was completing a task assigned by administrator of the group.'
She said of Sidorov: 'Five mobile phones, a tablet, and several SIM-cards were confiscated during the search.
'The suspect clarified that he is the administrator of a so-called suicide group that had 32 members, all of them underage.
'He assigned them tasks aimed at inuring themselves in order to incite suicide. The suspect has been detained and taken to Chelyabinsk.
'Currently, the police continue search and investigation activity aimed at establishing additional cases of illegal activity of the detained.'
Other alleged cases involving Sidorov are being actively probed.
Tatiana Bespalova, acting head of the school attended by the 14 year old girl, said she 'felt unwell' in her class during a maths. She was rushed to hospital, and police were called.
They discovered that she was involved in the death group on a social network. She spent nights online, became secretive, tired, and became annoyed easily.
Her chats with Sidorov, who was nicknamed Ilya Spartak, were monitored by police after the girl's foster mother Iraida Ryzhenkova reported him to police.
'As far as I understood it, this was supposed to be the last day or her life,' said the foster mother. Reports say he 'fully admitted' his guilt and faces up to five years in jail. The girl, who was not named, remains in hospital.
It is unclear if there is any connection between Sidorov and Budeikin.
Rosstat national statistics agency published data that 22,839 people committed suicide in 2016, down from 24,982 in 2015, without differentiating age groups.
The latest figure has more than halved from 2005 when there were 45,800 suicides.