Horrified Deaths While Taking Selfies

Clicking selfies is viral in today’s modern era. Everyone possesses a smart phone and uses its front camera to memorize all moments of life with a selfie. Apart from usual selfies there are certain people who prefer to take challenging selfies that claimed their lives. Holding selfie sticks on scary edges of mountain cliffs, top of a 60 storey building and ending up giving their lives have been circulating in news on usual basis.

According to an estimate, since 2014 49 people have lost their lives while attempting to photograph themselves; the average age of the victims is 21 years old, and 75% of them are male. India has the highest death rate comprising of 40% followed by Russia and USA. This article will highlight some recent deaths caused by taking selfies. Have a look at them:
 

Lahore youth Usman dies after accidentally shooting himself while taking selfie

A 22-year-old man died after being shot by himself while making a selfie with his cellular phone in Lahore on Sunday, police said.

Muhammad Usman, a resident of Shahidra, became the first causality of selfie craze in 2016.

The unfortunate incident took place in Kot Abdul Malik.

According to the police, Usman was making a selfie with his friend while pointing the loaded gun towards his chest.

While posing for the camera, he accidentally pulled the trigger of his gun. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he breathed his last.

The victim, however, was able to record his statement before police, blaming himself for the incident.


Pakistani man killed by train as he tried to take selfie

A Pakistani man has been killed after being hit by a fast-moving train as he tried to take a selfie with it behind him, according to officials.

Jamshaid Khan, 22, an employee of the railways department, tried to take the photograph on his phone while standing on the tracks in Rawalpindi.


 

Selfie with toy gun: Schoolboy shot by police in Faisalabad dies

A schoolboy who was shot at and injured by police in Faisalabad Monday for taking selfies with a toy pistol died of excessive bleeding.

Police had opened fire and injured two schoolboys who were taking pictures with a toy pistol on Faisalabad's Susan road.

The boys, identified as Farhan, 15, and Fahad,14, were reportedly taking pictures to post them on Facebook with a toy pistol when Faryad Husain, the station house officer (SHO) of Peoples Colony, opened fire on them without any warning.


 

The selfie-obsessed Romanian teen who burst into flames after touching a live wire

In May 2015, a Romanian teenager burst into flames after accidentally touching a live wire while attempting to take the "ultimate selfie" on the roof of a train.

Anna Ursu,18, and a friend went to a train station in the town of Iasi to take a "special selfie" that she intended to post on Facebook. As she lay on top of a train and stuck one of her legs in the air, an electrical field surrounding the overhead cables sent 27,000 volts zapping through her body, causing her to burst into flames.

Despite the best efforts of a passer-by to save her, the 18-year-old later died in a hospital with burns to 50 per cent of her body.


The tourist who plunged to her death while taking a selfie on a landmark bridge

In 2014, a 23-year-old nursing student from Poland died while attempting a selfie on the iconic Puente de Triana bridge in southern Spain. While balancing on the ledge of the famous bridge, Sylwia Rajchel slipped and fell 15 feet into the structure's concrete footings. She was revived after going into cardiac arrest at the scene but died later in the Hospital of Traumatology.

The harrowing accident happened on the young woman's dream vacation.


The teen who plunged 30ft to her death after trying to take a selfie on top of a railway bridge

A 17-year-old girl plunged 30 feet to her death as she climbed onto a railway bridge to take a selfie. Xenia Ignatyeva was a month short of her 18th birthday when she fell and was hit by 1,500 volts as she was electrocuted when she tried to grab live wires.

Xenia was a keen amateur photographer, and her big passion had been taking pictures of herself with a camera she bought at the end of 2013 after a summer job. But her life was cut short when she decided that the top of the rail bridge in Krasnogvardeysky, in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, would make a great location for one of her pictures.

Police, alerted by an anonymous call saying children had been playing on the bridge, believe the teen may have been alive for a short while after she hit the ground.


The 18-year-old who died attempting a group beach birthday selfie

A young woman named Chezka Agas drowned while posing for a group selfie after a friend's birthday celebration in the Philippines. The 18-year-old civil engineering student was overtaken by a strong wave that struck the group as they posed in front of the famous Bangui windmills on a beach in Barangay Masikil.

Police rushed Ms. Agas to a nearby hospital, but she was pronounced dead upon arrival.


The Polish couple who was killed in a cliff fall after posing for selfies

In August 2014, a Polish couple died after falling from a cliff in Portugal's Cabo da Roca, while apparently trying to take selfies with their children near the edge.

The couple's children, aged 5 and 6, witnessed the fall and were set in the care of Polish diplomats and psychologists.

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