Boy shooting Tiktok video accidentally kills himself
ABBOTTABAD: A 10th grade student accidentally shot and killed himself while shooting a video for Tiktok, a popular Chinese social media app, police said on Friday.
They said the incident took place in Bagan neigh bo ur hood of ab bot a bad where abdul sam ad was filming video with a pistol. He accidentally squeezed the trigger, fatally injuring himself.
The body was shited to a nearby hospital for medico-legal formalities.
The craze for the free video-sharing app that allows users to create and share short videos, has resulted in a number of such incidents in the country.
Recently, an 18-year-old boy in Narowal lost his life while making a video for the app.
The teenager drowned in a Narowal canal while filming video. The deceased, identified as Husnain, went to the canal along with three of his friends to record video. He slipped and fell into the canal.
On June 21, a teenage boy had shot himself dead while making a video for Tiktok in Karachi.
Tiktok said on Thursday it removed more than 49 million videos from its plaform in the second half of last year for violating its guidelines.
These videos accounted for less than 1% of the total posted on the plaform and fell under categories such as “violent and graphic content, hate speech and adult nudity,” it said in a report released on its website.
About one-third of the videos were from India, followed by the United States and Pakistan, it added.
The transparency report comes days ater the company owned by China’s Bytedance was banned from India, one of its biggest markets, ater a Sino-india border clash. The short-form video making app also decided to exit the Hong Kong market following China’s establishment of a sweeping new national security law for the semi-autonomous city.
Tiktok launched a new plaform to court small business advertisers on Wednesday. The plaform, however, was fraught with challenges, especially ater the Trump administration’s threat this week to impose a ban on China-based social media apps.