“ I want to experience feeling of death”, 24-yr-old records his suicide on TikTok

Team Udayavani, Jun 9, 2020, 6:42 PM IST

Tumkur: A 24-year-old man drank pesticide while recording his suicide on TikTok in Koratagere taluk of Tumkuru on Saturday evening.

The victim identified as Dhananjay drank pesticide while recording his suicide on a social media app.

Sources claim, After being scolded by his mother for not earning, Dhananjay bought a bottle of pesticide and recorded a small video saying, “I wanted to have a feel of death and will try to kill myself.”

The victim was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where he died during the treatment the next day.

According to police officials he wanted to scare his mother with  suicide threats. But after he drank the pesticide , he panicked thinking that he would die and rode back home. He later called his friend who took him to a hospital on Saturday night

Earlier, the man had rammed his bike into a tree to have a ‘feel’’of death, but he survived with minor injuries