According to reports, the mother-of-one, Areline Martinez, 20, had been using a real gun and live ammunition for the prank on October 2 when tragedy struck in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Video footage circulating online shows the young woman playing the role of a kidnap victim with an armed group of people surrounding her before the gun allegedly went off accidentally.

In the video, before the tragedy, she is seen sitting next to a man who is also pretending to be a victim with her hands and ankles bound at a small farm home in the Chihuahua neighborhood of Rigoberto Quiroz on Friday while 10 of her friends hold weapons and play the part of a criminal gang.

Meanwhile, some witnesses are reported to have told local newspaper Sin Embargo that the victim was shot by two of her friends with a 45-calibre gun after which they fled the scene.

Before her tragic death, Martinez had earlier in the day reportedly written on social media: "Time does not stop and neither do I."

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She found dead on the ground and still tied up as she was while performing the victim role in the fake kidnapping Tik Tok video shoot.

A funeral was carried out on Monday, October 5 while an investigation into the incident continues.

Cesar Augusto Peniche Espejel, the Chihuahua state attorney general told news site Proceso that a lot of factors were being considered in the investigation to unravel how the incident occurred. 

"One of the hypotheses we are looking at is that they were tampering with a firearm thinking that it was not loaded and accidentally shot the woman," Cesar Augusto Peniche Espejel said.

What beats imagination is the fact that a real gun and live ammunition were being used to have fun as if it was lost on the participants that anything could go wrong.

Watch the video below: