Ring’esque Horror Comes To Afgan Mobile Users

Mobile phones were switched off across Afghanistan as a rumour spread that calls from strange numbers could unleash a deadly virus.

Taxi driver Mar had heard ‘if you get a phone call from a strange number, if you hit “OK”, blood will come from your nose and ears, and you will die,’ he said as he turned off his phone.

Afghan mobile phone service providers said they had been inundated with calls from worried customers but the ministry of health said it had received ‘no reports of anyone answering their telephone and then bleeding from their noses’.

Source: Metro