Newlywed girl kills herself while making TikTok
A newlywed woman died after accidentally shooting herself while making a video with a pistol in her hand in a village near Buchiana, in the Jaranwala area of Faisalabad.
The 22-year-old girl is the daughter of Abbas Jatt of Chak 233-GB. She had been married just two days earlier to Azmat, a resident of the same village.
ARY News reported that the police have been giving contradictory explanations, saying that she was shot by a bullet coming from an unidentified direction.
Meanwhile, Geo News reports that the initial investigation by the police suggests she was making a video wielding a pistol at her in-laws' house when the gun went off.
Posing for the video, Fatima reportedly placed a pistol against her forehead, which then accidentally discharged, killing her on the spot.
Upon receiving the news, local police officials, including the Superintendent Police Jaranwala and the Station House Officer of Saddar police station, arrived at the scene with a team to investigate the matter.
A case has been registered in light of the statement of Fatima's mother.
While there is a general trend of firing in celebration at weddings in remote areas, the presence of a gun at home is not a surprise.
This is not a one-of-a-kind incident, as a 16-year-old boy was accidentally shot dead while recording a Tiktok video with his friends in Sialkot’s Kharota Syedan area back in 2019.
While his friends said that the teen, identified as Ammar Haider, shot himself accidentally in the stomach while they were shooting a video, his parents claimed that one of his friends shot him intentionally.
Earlier this year, a similar incident happened in May when a teenage student who worked at a call centre in Karachi killed himself accidentally while filming a TikTok video.
The police said that teenager Abdullah Mehmood, along with his friend, was filming a TikTok video with a pistol which went off, killing the 16-year-old on the site.
Following the incident, police officials sealed the call centre to investigate the matter.
The TikTok craze has been claiming lives worldwide. In 2022, the Associated Press reported that a TikTok trend pertaining to choking oneself with a household object caused the deaths of 20 children in 18 months.