India, Feb. 4 -- Three minors - a 16-year-old girl and two of her half-sisters aged 14 and 12 - died after allegedly jumping from the ninth floor of a high -rise building in Ghaziabad, police said Wednesday.

Following the incident, cops said the three girls were clearly influenced by Korean culture, were "highly-addicted" to an online Korean game and obssessed with gaming on their mobile phones.

The three minors lived with their father, a forex trader, and their mothers, police said. They added that the eldest aged 16 was born to the trader's first wife, while the other two were born to his second wife.

The minors have "left behind a lot of notes in a diary", which contain an apology and a crying caricature, assistant police commission...