15-year-old game addict beheads himself with a chainsaw after losing computer game

A Russian boy reportedly beheaded himself with a chainsaw after losing at a computer game.

Pavel Mateev, 15, from Tomsk region, went into his yard on Monday morning, September 3, before he "switched on a chainsaw and sawed off his own head."

Russian media cited local sources saying that he was addicted to a computer game that his single mother had bought for him. It is unclear what computer game he was playing before he killed himself, but a female source said Pavel spent hours at his computer and that his "nerves gave in after a game".

The local office of the Russian Investigative Committee gave no further details on Pavel’s case except to confirm a criminal case had been opened into incitement to suicide.