A 16-year-old boy from Belapur lost his fight for survival after being admitted for six days at the National Burns Centre, Airoli, following a stunt that went wrong while filming an Instagram reel atop a stationary train coach at Nerul railway station on July 6.

Arav Srivastava, a college student, got electrocuted after his hand came in contact with a high-voltage overhead wire as he posed on the unused garbage-filled train coach for a social media video. The powerful electric arc, reportedly at 25,000 volts, flung Arav off the coach, leaving him with 60-65 per cent burns and severe head trauma. He succumbed to his injuries on July 12.

Arav Srivastava