GUJRAT: A 15-year-old boy was run over and killed by a train when he was making a TikTok video near the rail track in Jhelum early on Saturday.

Rescue sources said Ibraheem Butt of Dina (Jhelum district) was making a video on his cell phone close to the rail track when he was run over by the train.

The body was handed over to the family. He was laid to rest in a local graveyard of Dina.

Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2020

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