Filming a video clip in the Lebanese city of Tire, to be published on the “Tik Tok” application, turned into a tragedy, following the death of the child, Muhammad. This is because his heart stopped as a result of a terrifying shock when he saw a group of people wearing scary masks.
And the correspondent of “Al-Hurra” in Beirut reported that the child, Muhammad Istanbuli, was surprised, on Friday evening, by people wearing scary masks in the vicinity of his house in the ancient city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon, which caused his death from a heart attack as a result of the horror he felt.
The child, who is 7 years old, used to be in Al-Hara Park at the waterfront, which is known as Al-Kharab. There, the children of the neighborhood play in the garden that the municipality has equipped with games near the archaeological site.
And when he was having fun, a group of young women and men filled the ruins site and wore scary masks.
Muhammad did not realize that they were filming scenes to be broadcast on TikTok. He panicked, which caused his heart muscle to stop and he died instantly. An attempt to treat him by his family by transferring him to a hospital in Tire was of no avail.
--The forensic doctor revealed that the death was caused by cardiac arrest, as a result of a sudden nervous shock.
Eyewitnesses reported that the young men and women who were performing the acting scene were wearing black clothes and scary masks, carrying swords and running around the place as if they were ghosts, which caused a state of panic for the child Muhammad, who was surprised by them and died instantly, according to Azzam.
A source close to the family stated that the child does not suffer from health symptoms and is in good health, and held responsibility for those who were doing the acting work without caring whether their work would lead to the disaster that occurred.
Muhammad’s father, Haider Istanbuli, filed a complaint at the Tire police station against the young men, accusing them of causing his son’s death. And the security forces, based on the signal of the Prosecutor General of the South, Raheef Ramadan, began to summon the suspects in order to interrogate them.
