As the controversy around the app continues to grow, TikTok has become the cause for yet another lives lost. Two men were found drowned in the Sutlej river on Saturday. Police said the incident took place while they were filming a video on the popular app.
The men were visiting the river for a picnic with friends when they slipped, lost their balance, and fell into the river. Both of them passed away.
Their bodies were found 20 hours later near Bahawalnagar and have been returned to their families, police officials said.
The death of the two men is not an isolated incident. Following the increase in accidents linked to TikTok, police have asked the Punjab government that the app be banned.
This incident comes almost two months after the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority issued a ‘final warning’ to TikTok on June 21. The app has been asked to put in place a comprehensive mechanism to control “obscenity, vulgarity, and immorality through its social media platform”.
Another incident also occurred in June when a teenager accidentally shot and killed himself while filming a TikTok video in Sikandarabad.
The young boy who lost his life was only 17 years old and was filming a video with his father’s pistol when he accidentally pulled the trigger.
A few months prior to that, in April, a 22-year-old man died after being hit by a train while shooting a video at the Jumma Goth railway station in Karachi’s Bhens Colony.
Last year, in December 16-year-old, Ammar Haider, was accidentally shot dead while recording a TikTok video with his friends in Sialkot.
Accidents such as these, that cost precious lives, have only increased the lobbying for the TikTok ban.
