On Thursday, a youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Bandra district died after a slab fell on him while he was making an Instagram reel.

Twenty-one-year-old Shivam Kumar hung upside down from a flag post on the roof of a school as his friends recorded the stunt. He wanted to raise a flag on the pole while hanging upside down, however, the cemented pole failed to bear the weight and collapsed leading to his death.

The incident happened at a Junior High School in Khairada village in Janpad Banda. Shivam reached the school after picking up his father from the railway station and dropped him home at around 5 PM. His friends, Anu and Ankit, were already waiting for him when he arrived at the school. The trio then climbed the school’s roof. Soon after they started recording the reel, the pole fell and Shivam got crushed beneath it. He died on the spot.

His Instagram feed is filled with several similar stunts where he can be seen hanging upside down from trees and ceilings.

Shivam’s father Vardani works as a labourer, while he was employed at a water pouch factory.