TikTok. This troubling online trend - which is not affiliated with the video-sharing app - encourages users to strangle or otherwise asphyxiate themselves until they lose consciousness.The Italian girl, named Antonella, had placed a belt around her neck to prevent herself from breathing so she could complete the challenge on Wednesday.She had been filming her attempts with her mobile phone, and it remains unknown whether she was live-streaming herself to online viewers at the same time.Her five-year-old sister discovered her unconscious, and her parents rushed the girl to a hospital in Palermo.Medics tried desperately to save Antonella, who had gone into cardiac arrest, but it was too late and she was declared brain dead.Her grieving.
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