The 12-year-old boy from Kota had worn mangalsutra and bangles. He then wrapped a thick metal chain around his neck and hanged himself in his bathroom — all apparently a part of the principles of a TikTok challenge.
A TikTok challenge proved deadly for a 12-year-old boy from Kota, Rajasthan.
The boy died when he hanged himself from a noose as a part of the TikTok challenge.
Before hanging himself, the boy had worn
mangalsutra (sacred thread worn by Hindu married women) and bangles. He then
wrapped a thick metal chain around his neck and hanged himself with it in
his toilet — all
apparently a part of the principles of TikTok
challenge.
The incident occurred late at
nighttime. When the
boy’s family found him missing in
the morning, they raised an alarm. They later discovered him hanging from the ceiling
of the bathroom.
According to the boy’s father, the state he was
found in was exactly like
that described in the TikTok challenge. “He
was wearing mangalsutra
and bangles and was wearing a noose made of chains and was found hanging. He was using TikTok the whole night,” the father of the kid said.
“If it was not for TikTok then my kid would have
been alive,” the distraught father added.
SSI Republic
of India Singh told reporters that when the boy’s family took him to a private hospital, he was
declared dead. A postmortem was also conducted
on the body.