Train mows down UP teen trying to make reels standing on railway tracks, horrific video goes viral

New Delhi: Yet another incident of recklessness and carelessness has resulted in the painful death of a 14-year-old Boy from Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district. The Teenager, identified as Farmaan, was mauled down by a speeding train after he carelessly stood on the tracks while using his phone to create reels.

Horrific visuals of the brutal accident are now surfacing on social media and netizens are talking about the same.

Here’s the video (Discretion advised)

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Barabanki: A teenager Farmaan (14) who was purportedly making a video for Instagram reels along the railway tracks was kiIIed when he was struck by a running train. pic.twitter.com/Ysxl895ABD

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This chilling footage captured the last moments of 14-year-old Farman who was seen standing right in the middle of the railway tracks before a train rammed him to death in less than a second. As the video begins, Farman is seen walking towards the railway tracks to record a reel with his mobile phone. However, the negligent boy’s momentary craze for social media of cost him his life as a fast-moving train soon arrived and brutally rammed him to death in the blink of an eye.

The impact from the train was so brutal that Farmaan was sent flying away in the air before eventually getting mowed down to death under its wheels in a fraction of a second. Before concluding, the disturbing video also shows a glimpse of Farman’s friend who was probably who was holding the cameras that captured the painful death of the 14-year-old ill-fated boy.

Post the accident, Farmaan was rushed to the hospital by the locals where he was declared ‘brought dead’ by the doctors. His body was later sent for postmortem by GRP SHO Dharmendra Singh.

More details about the accident

The victim of the accident Farmaan has been identified as the son of Munna who hails from Tera Daulatpur in Jahangirabad, Uttar Pradesh. During the time of the mishap, the deceased teenager was accompanied by his 4 friends (Shuiab, Nadir, and Sameer) who were all headed to watch a witness a procession nearby.