Maharashtra: Teenager killed while posing with pistol for TikTok clip

A teenr was killed after accidentally pressing  trigger of a country-me pistol while shooting a clip for social video app TikTok in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, police said on Thursday, June 13.

Pratik Wekar (17) and his relatives were posing for a TikTok video with a country-me pistol one of his relatives h brought, police said.

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social video app claims that it has 200 million users in India, of which 120 million are active every month.

Pratik died on spot during incident, which took place in temple town of Shirdi on Wednesday, June 12 evening, police said. Incidentally, he and his relatives Sunny Pawar (20), Nitin Wekar (27), an 11-year-old boy and ar young man were in Shirdi for last rituals of a family member, police said.

While sitting in ir hotel room, y decided to shoot a video on mobile phone by posing with a country-me pistol one of Pratik's relatives h brought, and uplo it on  TikTok app.

" trigger of pistol was accidentally pressed and bullet hit Pratik," said inspector Anil Katke of Shirdi police station.

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As he collapsed, ors ran out of room, and when hotel staff, alerted by gunshot, tried to stop m, one of m allegedly threatened to open fire and fled, police officer said.

Police took Pratik to government hospital where he was declared de before mission.

A case has been registered under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder), police said, ding Sunny Pawar and Nitin Wekar were arrested while ar relative was yet to be traced.