MANSEHRA: A boy accidentally killed his younger brother while making a TikTok video in Battle Charbagh Bala area here on Wednesday.

“Both the brothers were making a TikTok clip when one of them fired on the other and left him dead instantly,” SHO Battle police station Anwar Khan told reporters.

“Jamal Shah, 16, and his younger brother, Aad Shah, 13, were making video clips with a pistol when the former fired at the latter leaving him dead on the spot,” he added.

The police said the body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Battle, and later handed over to Imtiaz Shah, the father of the deceased, after completing the medico-legal formalities.

The police after lodging the FIR arrested the boy and started further investigations.

Separately, a man working at the Dasu hydropower project was electrocuted on Wednesday.

Co-workers shifted Mohammad Usman to the medical site of the project, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Published in Dawn, July 28th, 2022

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