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A boy has died after accidentally hanging himself while trying to copy a stunt seen on YouTube , his mother claims.

Aundreis Bass, 11, was found unconscious by his mum with a rope around his neck in his closet in Georgia, US.

His siblings said the boy had been watching prank videos online which involved hanging and attempted it himself.

His devastated mum Cantenecia Stokes described how he had panicked and tried to pull the rope to escape - but only tightened the knot.

She had been preparing breakfast for her family when Aundreis's siblings rushed in to tell her what had happened.

Despite her best efforts to resuscitate her son, he died in hospital four days later.

She has now shared her story in the hopes of preventing a similar tragedy from taking place.

Ms Stokes, who will not let her children use the internet without supervision, told US broadcaster WSB-TV: “I lost my baby because of something he didn't even know fully completely about.

“He panicked and he was trying to take himself out and he didn’t know if you pull you're only worsening, you're tightening it.”

(Image: WSBTV)

She added: “It’s gotten to the point where (the internet) is taking away our kids.

“I just don’t want nobody else to have to suffer what I went through."