Hyderabad, Feb. 4 -- Social media addiction has claimed the lives of three sisters, all aged below 16 years, when they jumped off their balcony on the ninth floor, one by one, on an early Wednesday morning, February 4, in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad.

The sisters - aged 12, 14 and 16 - resided with their parents in Bharat City, an apartment complex. They bolted the balcony door and jumped out of a window. Their screams and loud thuds of their bodies alerted their parents, neighbours and security guards.

Before taking their lives, they left an eight-page handwritten suicide note addressed to their father saying, "Sorry, Papa."

"Is diary me jo kuch bhi likha hai woh sab padh lo kyuki ye sab sach hai (Read everything written in this diary be...