Teenager accidentally kills himself while recording TikTok video

A teenager boy accidentally shot and killed himself while filming a video for popular video-sharing platform TikTok in Sikandarabad, Karachi. The 17 years old deceased was reportedly filming himself while holding his father’s pistol to his temple when he accidentally pulled the trigger, killing himself. The police stated that the pistol was licensed and belonged to the boy’s father, a labourer.

In a separate incident, Islamabad police arrested a man for shooting videos with arms and ammunition and posting them on TikTok, ARY News reported. The arrested man is a resident of the federal capital’s G-7 area. He had created a TikTok group under the name of ‘313’ where he used to post videos displaying different kinds of weapons and ammunition, the police said.

Source: Express Tribune