Gorakhpur, May 3 -- A teenager was killed, two injured, and two others airlifted by an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter after a group of teenagers climbed a dilapidated overhead water tank to shoot a social media reel in Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district on Sunday, police said.

"The incident occurred when five teenagers, around 2.30 pm, climbed a nearly 50-60-foot-high overhead water tank in a Kanshi Ram residential colony to shoot a social media reel. While descending, around 6 pm, the rusted iron ladder of the dilapidated structure collapsed, causing three of them to fall. The villagers made an SOS call to the local police," Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue) Gaurav Srivastava said.

Siddharth, 13, died due to ...