A teenager was killed after accidentally pressing the trigger of a country-made pistol, while shooting a clip for the social video app TikTok in Ahmednagar district, the police said on Thursday. Pratik Wadekar, 17, and his relatives were posing for a TikTok video with a country-made pistol that one of his relatives had brought along, police said.

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