Craze for TikTok claimed one more life as a youth drowned whereas taking pictures for the favored video sharing platform in a lake. The incident occurred in Dulapally lake in Medchal district of Hyderabad on Wednesday night, police stated. This but once more proves the perils of TikTok habit.
The youth, recognized as Narasimha, had bought down into the water to pose for TikTok. He alongside together with his good friend, Prashanth, danced collectively within the water to the tune of movie songs. Later Narasimha alone posed for the video whereas his good friend was recording it on the cell phone from a distance.
Narasimha by chance slipped the place the water was deep and drowned as he didn’t know swimming. Although Prashanth raised an alarm, no person may come to their rescue. The police recovered the physique on Thursday.
That is in no way the primary occasion of demise as a consequence of TikTok habit. Simply final month, a 24-year previous mom of two youngsters dedicated suicide in Tamil Nadu. The incident occurred after she was scolded by her husband and prevented from utilizing TikTok.
Again in January this yr, a 15-year-old in Mumbai hung herself on her birthday after being scolded by her grandmother for continually being on TikTok. In one other occasion, 19-year-old Salman Zakir from Delhi was by chance shot by his good friend who was attempting to make a TikTok video.
TikTok is owned by Chinese language firm ByteDance. And the brief video sharing platform claims to have over 120 million month-to-month lively customers in India.
With Inputs from IANS
