A 17-year-old boy was accidentally killed while shooting a video for the social video app TikTok after pressing the trigger of a country-made pistol in Ahmednagar district, police said on Thursday. The victim identified as Pratik Wadekar (17) and his relatives were shooting for a TikTok video with a country-made pistol one of his relatives had brought.

Pratik died on the spot during the incident, which took place in the temple town of Shirdi on Wednesday evening. Incidentally, he and his relatives Sunny Nitin Wadekar (27), Pawar (20) and an 11-year-old boy and another young man were in Shirdi for the last rituals of a family member, police said. While sitting in their hotel room, they decided to record a video on their mobile phone by posing with a country-made pistol one of Pratik’s relatives had brought, and upload it on the TikTok app.