Youth killed while posing with pistol for TikTok video

A teenager was shot dead 'accidentally' when he and his relatives were posing for a TikTok video in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, police said Thursday.

Pratik Wadekar (17) died on the spot during the incident which took place in the temple town of Shirdi Wednesday evening.

Pratik and his relatives Sunny Pawar (20), Nitin Wadekar (27), an 11-year-old boy and another young man were in Shirdi for the last rituals of a family member, police said.

While sitting in their hotel room, they decided to shoot a video on mobile phone by posing with a country-made pistol one of Pratik's relatives had brought, and upload it on popular video-sharing app TikTok.

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

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