'Absolute tragedy': PM's plea after teen's death in run it straight game

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has called connected nan adults and influencers driving nan tally it consecutive craze to deliberation powerfully astir what they're doing.

"It's incredibly tragic for for nan young personification progressive pinch their family, for their friends," Luxon told power show Newstalk ZB today.

"I mean, it's conscionable an absolute tragedy.

"It's a bully reminder for group to return individual responsibility, for individual responsibility, to deliberation astir nan activity.

"But I'd besides opportunity to adults and sports influencers and personage influencers, aliases immoderate it is driving this benignant of craze, they should beryllium reasoning and reflecting very powerfully correct now.

"It's not thing you tin practically prohibition astatine a authorities level, but it's conscionable calling for group to workout individual responsibility, but besides for nan adults progressive successful each of this to deliberation very profoundly astir what they're doing."

Ryan's uncle Peter Satterthwaite told nan NZ Herald that nan 19-year-old hitting his caput was a "freak accident".

He said nan group of friends had "carried connected celebrating, knew astir nan game, thought it'd beryllium bully nosy to play" connected Sunday aft nan 21st day nan nighttime before.

The format of nan crippled mimicked nan high-impact RUNIT sport, wherever 2 players sprint straight astatine each different - 1 arsenic a tackler, nan different a shot runner - pinch nan extremity of knocking nan different down.

The NZ Herald reported nan teen had emergency room connected Sunday but couldn't beryllium saved from his encephalon injuries.

His life support was turned disconnected connected Monday night.

Manawatū area commandant Inspector Ross Grantham told RNZ's Checkpoint nan tackle that injured Satterthwaite was captured connected film, and was "pretty unspectacular."

"It doesn't look for illustration his caput has deed thing hard, hasn't deed nan crushed aliases his mate's assemblage aliases head. It's nan activity that has caused this injury," Grantham told Checkpoint's Lisa Owen.

"It was conscionable an impromptu arena pinch immoderate mates that sewage together, and nan 2 men tally towards each other, and from that collision, this young man Ryan has received specified a unspeakable wounded that it's been fatal."

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