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KARACHI:
A teenager was killed and two of his buddies injured in a automotive accident whereas filming a video for fashionable video-sharing platform TikTok in Korangi on Saturday night time.
The deceased, recognized as Faraz, misplaced management of the automotive he was driving attributable to rushing and ran right into a tree. As a outcome, he and his buddies, Ayaz and Ahsan, have been injured. They have been rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for therapy, the place Faraz succumbed to his injured.
According to the police, the automotive was fully wrecked within the collision. They added that the statements of the injured couldn’t be recorded until the submitting of this report.
The physique was handed over to the household after the finishing of medico-legal formalities.
This shouldn’t be the primary time {that a} life has been misplaced whereas filming a TikTok video. On June 21, a 17-year-old boy by chance shot and killed himself whereas making a video. He was reportedly filming himself whereas holding his father’s pistol to his temple when he by chance pulled the set off.
Karachi teenager taking pictures TikTok video ‘by chance’ kills himself
Meanwhile, in April, a 22-year-old man died after being hit by a prepare whereas taking pictures a video on the Jumma Goth railway station in Bhens Colony.
According to the Landhi Railway police, Kashif had been operating on the railway tracks whereas doing a TikTok problem when the prepare hit him, inflicting crucial head accidents. His buddies, who have been additionally filming movies, took him to JPMC, the place he succumbed to his wounds.
