The craze of creating `reels' or short videos for social media almost cost a Nepalese teenager his life on Tuesday as he got injured while staging a fake suicide by hanging in Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar district on Tuesday morning.
The incident occurred on the premises of a hotel located on Karamala Road in Jamkhed area, said an official.
The 17-year-old Nepalese national and his friend were shooting a video of a fake suicide.
The youngster tied a piece of cloth to a tree and slipped the noose around his neck, but something went wrong and the noose tightened, choking him.
His friend rushed to his aid and removed the noose. The teenager sustained internal injuries to the neck and was taken to a private hospital in Jamkhed, said the police official.
He was undergoing treatment.
Jamkhed Police visited the hospital and recorded the statement of the victim's friend, the official said, adding that further probe was on.
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