A teenager and his friend were killed while making a TikTok video on the railway tracks, after they were run over by a train between Yelahanka and Channasandra in Bengaluru, on Friday evening.
The victims have been identified as 19-year-old Aftab Sheriff and his friend, 23-year-old Mohammed Matin. The third person, 22-year-old Zabiullah Khan was shooting the video, and was injured in the accident. He was flung some distance away from the tracks. Zabiullah has been taken to the government hospital in Yelahanka where is currently undergoing treatment.
All three were residents of RK Hegde Nagar in Bengaluru.
According to reports, the three friends walked on to the railway track near RK Hegde Nagar. Around 5.30 pm, as they were shooting a Tik Tok video, the Kolar-Chikkaballapur-Bengaluru train was making its way onto the track and hit them before they could jump to a safe spot. Aftab and Mohammed were critically injured, while Zaibullah sustained severe injuries.
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Earlier in June, a 19-year-old from Tumkur in Karnataka had injured his spine while attempting a backflip for a TikTok video. He sustained severe injuries to his spinal cord and later succumbed while being treated for his injuries.
There have been several such instances of people injuring themselves, even fatally, for the sake of attempting such stunts for social media. In 2017, another teenager, from Hyderabad, died while taking a selfie from the top of a railway coach. The teenager came into contact with a high tension wire and sustained extensive burns.