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"Danger! No Selfie Sticks on the platform" sign at a Japan Railways Group station

This is a list of serious injuries and deaths in which the victim or a member of their group (for group selfies) took a selfie, or was preparing to do so, and any death(s) or injury(s) sustained were at least in part attributed to this activity for any reason. The Telegraph, citing Mashable and reporting numbers from a list on Wikipedia, wrote that, in 2015, more people were killed taking selfies than by shark attacks.[1] CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Daily Beast have debated that analysis.[2][3][4][5] CNN also cited data drawn, in part, from the Wikipedia list.[2][6]

The United States Department of Transportation estimated that during 2014, the year of the selfie,[7][8] 33,000 people were injured while driving and using a cell-phone in some fashion, which can include talking, listening, and "manual button/control actuation" including taking, uploading, downloading, editing, or opening of selfies.[9] A survey by Erie Insurance Group found 4% of all drivers admit to taking selfies while driving, equal to nearly 10% of the percentage of drivers who admit to singing or dancing while driving and 1% higher than drivers who admit to urinating or defecating while driving.[10]

The Washington Post reported January 2016 that reports show "about half" of at least 27 selfie deaths in 2015 occurred in India.[11] As of February 2016, Priceonomics had recorded more selfie-related deaths in India than any other country. The data service provider said data gathered from Google News Archive and undisclosed source(s) on Wikipedia showed 19 people were killed since 2014 in India while taking selfies, accounting for 40% of all selfie-related deaths.[2][12] According to the Hindustan Times, no official data on the number of people who died taking selfies exists, but reports show from 2014 up to August 2016, there have been at least 54 deaths in India while taking selfies.[13] The Indian Tourism Ministry asked states to identify and barricade ‘selfie danger’ areas, its first national attempt to deal with the selfie deaths. Unnamed experts say that "selfies have become an attention-seeking activity for youths trying to find self-esteem in the ‘likes’ and comments on various social media platforms." Mumbai police identified at least 16 danger zones after a man drowned attempting to save a selfie-taker[13] A 2014 study found that 2 out of every 100,000 people in Mumbai were selfie-takers. The city ranked 416th among 459 other cities globally for most selfies per capita.[14]

2013–2015

Date Country Casualties Type Description Source(s)
13 December 2013 England 1 Other A 17-year-old girl committed suicide by jumping in front a tube train. She took a selfie of the incident which she titled "last pic before I die". She was reportedly distraught over gossip about pictures she’d sent to a boy. [15]
27 December 2013 Lebanon 1 Other A group of six teens posed for a selfie in Beirut. In the background a car can be seen pulling up behind them. The car exploded in a terrorist attack, killing one of the teens. [16]
March 2014 Spain 1 Electrocution A 21-year-old Spanish man died from electrocution after climbing on top of a train to take a selfie with friends and touching a wire that (contrary to the assumptions of the group) turned out to be live. One of the friends was hospitalized in serious condition. [17]
April 2014 Russia 1 Fall A 17-year-old Russian amateur photographer climbed atop a railway bridge in Saint Petersburg to take a selfie. She lost her balance and fell to her death. [18][19]
April 2014 United States 1 Transport A 32-year-old woman from North Carolina was driving when her vehicle veered across the center median, collided with a recycling truck, left the road, hit a tree, and burst into flames - moments after posting selfies online. The truck driver was unharmed. [20][21]
May 2014 India 1 Transport A 15-year-old boy was killed by a speeding train while posing for a selfie on the tracks. [22]
June 2014 Italy 1 Fall A 16-year-old girl died in after plunging 60 feet while she was trying to take a photograph of herself on the seafront. [23]
July 2014 Philippines 1 Fall A 14-year-old high school student in the Philippines fell to her death after losing her balance while taking a selfie with a friend near a staircase landing of their school in suburban Pasig. According to doctors, she sustained a sharp blow to the head from the fall and broke a rib which pierced a kidney. [24]
August 2014 Philippines 1 Firearm A 15-year-old boy in the Philippines was critically wounded after accidentally shooting himself while taking a selfie in which his other hand was holding a gun to his chin. [25]
2 August 2014 Mexico 1 Firearm A 21-year-old man was drinking with friends and took a selfie to post on Facebook. He posed with a gun pointed at his face. The gun accidentally went off and he was declared dead at the scene. [26][27]
August 2014 Portugal 2 Fall A Polish couple fell to their death off a cliff in Portugal after crossing a safety barrier to take a selfie with their children. Their two children who were present at the scene survived. [28]
August 2014 India 1 Electrocution In Kerala, a 14-year-old boy was electrocuted while attempting to take a selfie on top of a stationary train. [29]
August 2014 United States 1 Transport A 36-year-old man, of Niagara, N.D., struck and killed a 54-year-old woman of Portland, N.D. while driving. She was riding a bicycle and he was distracted as he took a selfie, striking her from behind with his vehicle. [30]
October 2014 Philippines 1 Drowned An 18-year-old woman in the Philippines was posing for a group selfie on a beach with friends. She was captured by a strong wave and drowned. [31][32][33]
November 2014 Spain 1 Fall A 23-year-old student from Poland fell to her death while trying to take a selfie on the ledge of the Triana Bridge in Seville, Spain. [34][35]
January 2015 South Africa 1 Fall A 21-year-old woman died after falling from Northcliff Hill, Johannesburg, as a male companion was setting up a tripod for a selfie. Reports vary as to the identity of the companion. [36][37]
January 2015 Russia 2 Other Two young men died in the Ural mountains after they pulled the pin from a live hand grenade to take a selfie. The phone with the picture remained as evidence of the circumstance of their deaths. [38]
January 2015 India 3 Transport Three students aged 20 to 22 died trying to take a "daredevil selfie" close to an oncoming train on railway tracks of Mathura, near Kosikala. [39]
4 February 2015 India 1 Transport An Israeli man traveling on a train from Mumbai to Goa in India was attempting to take a selfie and fell out of the moving train, resulting in his death. [40]
21 February 2015 United States 1 Transport A man in Kalama, Washington stepped out onto a railroad track to take a selfie with himself and a woman with a passing train in the background. The man misjudged which track the oncoming train was on and was struck and died at the scene. [41]
March 2015 India 7 Drowned Seven youths drowned while taking selfies on Mangrul Lake near Kuhi, about 20 km from Nagpur, India. Their boat had tipped over as they were standing up to pose. [42][43]
April 2015 Serbia 1 Transport A 22-year-old man was trying to recreate a scene from his favorite movie Barking at the Stars by running in front of a train, beating it and being hailed a hero. As he ran in front of the train, he tried to take a selfie to document the scene. He was killed instantly when the express train hit him at full speed in the village of Lacarak near the northern Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica. [44]
1 April 2015 Italy 1 Fall A 60-year-old German tourist skiing in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy was reported missing when he failed to pick up his children from ski school. Subsequent investigation found that while skiing alone, he took off his skis and went off-trail to take a selfie next to a cliff, where he slipped and plunged 200 metres to his death. [45]
May 2015 Romania 2 Electrocution An 18-year-old died when she attempted to take the "ultimate selfie", posing with a friend on top of a train in the north-eastern Romanian city of Iași when her leg touched a live wire above which electrocuted her with 27,000 volts. A 17-year-old friend who accompanied her was hospitalised. [46]
May 2015 Russia 1 Electrocution A teenager climbed on a railway bridge in the Ryazan region in Russia to take a selfie and died when he came in contact with live wires. [47]
May 2015 Russia 1 Firearm A 21-year-old woman asked a security guard at her office to give her a 9-millimeter rubber-bullet pistol for taking a selfie and accidentally shot herself in the head, sustaining heavy injuries. [48]
May 2015 Indonesia 1 Fall A 21-year-old man from Yogyakarta fell into the crater of Mount Merapi while attempting to take a selfie and died. [49][50]
May 2015 Indonesia 1 Fall A Singaporean tourist died after falling into the sea while taking a selfie on a cliff in Nusa Lembongan, an island off the coast of Bali [51]
June 2015 Pakistan 1 Firearm A 15-year-old boy in Pakistan was taking selfies with a toy gun when police opened fire on him, killing him. [52]
June 2015 Russia 2 Electrocution Two teenagers were electrified, but survived, at a railroad yard in the city of Taganrog in southern Russia. They tried to climb on the tank car of an old freight train that was standing at the platform in order to take a selfie, but didn’t realize it was still in use and on a live track. [53]
June 2015 Croatia 1 Fall A 54-year-old Slovak tourist visiting Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia fell to her death from a rock while taking a selfie. [54][55]
July 2015 Russia 1 Fall A 21-year-old university graduate died after falling from a bridge while she was trying to take a memorable selfie next to the Moscow International Business Center. [56]
July 2015 United States 1 Animal A man from San Diego was hospitalised for five days following an attempt to take a selfie with a rattlesnake which then bit him. [57][58]
July 2015 United States 1 Animal A woman in Yellowstone National Park was gored by an American bison while taking a selfie. She was treated for injuries. [59]
July 2015 Philippines 1 Transport A woman vacationing in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte asked her family to stop their car so she could take a selfie by the side of the road with a scenic view. She was hit by a speeding motorcycle while taking the picture. She was taken to hospital and died. The driver of the motorcycle was a minor. [60]
August 2015 Spain 1 Animal A man was gored to death in the annual bull-running festival in the town of Villaseca de la Sagra while trying to take a selfie with a bull. [61]
August 2015 China 1 Fall A man was discovered with his phone and selfie stick at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff at Long Men waterfall in Zhejiang. Based on photographic evidence on his phone, local police speculated that he lost his footing while taking a selfie and fell to his death. It was not known when he died or how long his body had been there. [62]
September 2015 United States 1 Firearm A 19-year-old from Houston died after trying to take an Instagram selfie while holding a loaded gun to his head. He accidentally fired the gun and shot himself in the throat. [63]
September 2015 India 1 Fall A Japanese tourist fell down a staircase to his death while taking a selfie at the Taj Mahal, Agra, India. [64]
September 2015 Russia 1 Fall A 17-year-old student, Andrey Retrovsky from Vologda, Russia, fell to his death attempting to take a selfie while hanging from a rope from a nine-story building. The rope snapped. Retrovsky was known for taking 'extreme' selfies and posting them to his Instagram account "drewsssik". [65][66]
September 2015 India 1 Fall An engineering student died while taking selfies with friends at Kolli Hills, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, when the rock on which he was standing cracked and gave way, plunging him 60 feet and causing his death from head injuries. [67][68]
5 September 2015 Norway 1 Fall A foreign student from Australia completed a long hike into the mountains above lake Ringedalsvatnet. While attempting to take a selfie at the edge of a cliff formation known as Trolltunga (The Troll's Tongue), she slipped and plunged to her death. It took helicopter rescue crews 7 hours to recover her body from the remote and difficult terrain. [69]
October 2015 Spain 1 Electrocution A 14-year-old from Barcelona was hospitalised with electric shock after trying to take a selfie on the roof of a train car. [70]
October 2015 Chile 1 Fall A 68-year-old Belgium woman was visiting the El Tatio geyser field located within the Andes Mountains of northern Chile. While attempting to take a selfie in front of an active geyser she stepped backwards and fell into the scalding hot water. Her husband pulled her out, but she died in hospital days later from burns over 85 per cent of her body. [71]
November 2015 India 2 Drowned Two engineering students of Wadhwan, Gujarat, drowned in Narmada Canal after slipping down the bank while taking selfies. [72]
November 2015 India 2 Transport A first-year student of College Sourav Dey died and another was critically injured in the Kalyani area in Nadia district of West Bengal, India, as they were run over by a train while they were taking selfies. [73]
November 2015 India 1 Electrocution A 14-year-old, who was trying to take a selfie atop a stationary train wagon at Nahur station yard in Mumbai, was electrocuted and died a few hours later. He accidentally came in contact with a 25,000-volt overhead wire and suffered 80 percent burns. [74][75]
December 2015 Pakistan 1 Transport A 22-year-old man, the son of a railway employee of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, died while attempting to take a selfie while standing on the track in front of a moving train. [76]
December 2015 Turkey 5 Transport Five teenagers lay down in the middle of the road near an airport to get a selfie with a plane landing in the background. It was at night, and a truck driver did not see them and accidentally ran over them, killing two of them. The teenagers had been drinking. [77]

2016

January

  • A 19-year-old student fell to her death from the top of a 20-story apartment building in Manila, Philippines, while taking a selfie. According to her classmate, "she was not satisfied with the photos they had taken so she decided to climb up the parapet wall".[78]
  • A 20-year-old fell to his death while taking a selfie from the top of the Reasi Fort at Jammu and Kashmir, India.[79]
  • A 20-year-old college girl drowned at Bandstand Promenade in Bandra, Mumbai. She is believed to have been swept away in the high tide. According to the girl's friends, they were taking selfies, standing on the rock, close to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL). "The girls were standing 50 metres away from the shore when the water suddenly rose. They did not notice water rising and remained on the rock taking pictures (selfies). One of the girls was pulled into the water due to high tide."[80][81]

February

  • A Nepalese girl drowned in the Narayani River. She dived into the river to save her friend who slipped into the water while the two were taking selfies together near the bank. The girl who originally fell was rescued but her friend who tried to save her died.[82]
  • A 16-year-old boy was killed by a passenger train while taking a selfie with an approaching train in Chennai, India. "The teen reportedly walked in front of the train and waited for it to come closer before taking the photo."[83]
  • A college student drowned after falling off of the Waldevi Dam in Nashik, India, while taking a selfie.[84][85]
  • Three students of Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences drowned after falling in an irrigation canal in Hulivana village, 180 km from Bengaluru, India, reportedly while they were taking selfies.[86]
  • February 18 – An Argentinian crowd seeking selfies was held responsible for the death of a La Plata dolphin.[87] It has however been claimed that the dolphin was already dead.[88]
  • February 22 – Five people in Anjuna, Goa, fell off a cliff and were injured after a gate they were leaning on gave way during a group selfie.[89]

March

  • On March 2, a 43-year-old man in Concrete, Washington, accidentally shot himself in the face with a gun and died while taking a selfie. He thought the gun was unloaded.[90]
  • On March 5, 22-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, was shot in the face with a sawn-off shotgun while posing for a selfie with the gun. The gun was fired by a friend who was holding it. The shooter fled the scene and was charged with murder.[91][92]
  • On March 12, a 30-year-old man fell off Lion Rock in Hong Kong while taking a selfie and died.[93]

April

  • On April 5, 2016, a 16-year-old climbed a rock fountain at a zoo in Hyderabad, India, apparently to take a selfie. He slipped, fell into the water and may have hit his head on a rock. He was taken to hospital where his death was recorded.[94][95]
  • On April 15, 2016, two youths were run over by a train while taking selfies on the railway tracks at Purushottampur railway crossing in Chunar area in Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh, India.[96]
  • A 16-year-old boy died while taking a selfie at a railway crossing in Saharanpur, a town in Uttar Pradesh, India.[97]
  • On 26 April, while taking a selfie, a 25-year-old youth fell off the Dolphin Nose cliff near Vattakanal village, situated eight km from the Kodaikanal Lake, Tamil Nadu, India.[98]

May

  • A 15-year-old boy from Pathankot, India, died on 1 May 2016 after he accidentally shot himself with his father's revolver while taking a selfie with the gun pointed at his head.[99][100]
  • A Chinese businessman, at a local wildlife park in the city of Rongcheng, Shangdong province, was drowned by a walrus after taking several selfies and videos with the animal. A zookeeper was also drowned in the same incident after attempting to save the man.[101]

June

  • An 18-year-old boy drowned in the Ganges river while taking a selfie after bathing with his mother and a friend in Nabadwip of West Bengal state in India on 3 June 2016.[102]
  • On June 3, a 15-year-old from Overland, Missouri, accidentally shot and killed himself while attempting to take a selfie at home posing with his father's gun.[103]
  • On 12 June, a 23-year-old fell into the water and drowned at Sindhrot check dam near Vadodara, India, while taking a selfie. His friend jumped into the water to save him, he also drowned.[104]
  • On June 18, a 37-year-old EMS lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department, was mountain climbing near Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains. She was on a ledge at the top of Roaring Brook Falls preparing to take a selfie when she disappeared from sight. Rescue services found her body in the water at the base of the falls.[105][106]
  • On 22 June, seven people were swept away and drowned to death while taking a selfie in the river Ganges in Kanpur, Uttarpradesh, India. They were a 21-year-old, two 20-year-olds, a 19-year-old, a 31-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 24-year-old. According to a police official, they had gone for a picnic at Kanpur Ganga Barrage when one of the party tried to take a selfie by standing on the edge of the barrage and tripped and fell into the Ganges. The river was already in spate due to rains in the region. The six others, in an attempt to save him, jumped into the river but were themselves swept away by the current.[107]
  • A third year engineering student of a Lonavla-based college and hailing from Nashik, lost his balance while taking a selfie from the Amrutanjan bridge and fell down next to the Pune-Mumbai Expressway in Maharashtra, India. He died on the spot.[108][109]
  • On June 29, a 28-year-old South Korean tourist plunged 1,600 feet (490 m) off a cliff at Gocta waterfall in the Amazonas Region of Peru. He was attempting to take a picture of himself. Divers and mountain rescue teams were brought in to recover the body submerged more than 20 feet underwater at the base of the falls.[110]
  • On June 29, a 51-year-old German tourist visiting Machu Picchu in Peru, fell 130 feet (40 m) to his death after he lost his footing while leaping into the air for a "flying selfie".[110][111]
  • A 20-year-old Canadian tourist plunged off a 75 meters (246 ft) viewpoint in the Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia, while trying to take a selfie. His fall was broken by tree branches and he survived with injuries. It was the park's second selfie accident in a year.[54][55]

July

  • On July 6, four students were taking selfies near Purva waterfall on Tamas River in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, India. They were unaware of an oncoming flash flood and all four were swept away and drowned.[112]
  • Two students drowned while taking selfies at Kosi Dam near Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India. A group of students were taking selfies and became trapped in a vortex; the rest were saved.[113]
  • On July 12, a 36-year-old and a friend climbed to a mountain peak at Khandala, India, against warnings. There they took selfies with a waterfall in the background, but the 36-year-old slipped and fell into a 200-foot-deep quarry and died.[114]
  • On July 12 in southern Nepal, a truck driver stopped for a wild herd of 21 elephants crossing the road. The driver exited his vehicle to take a selfie with the animals. The herd attacked and killed the man.[115]
  • On July 13 in the province of Hung Yen, Vietnam, two men aged 21 and 28 were hit and killed by a train while taking a selfie on the tracks. Bystanders tried to shout warnings at the men but they could not hear them due to wearing earphones.[116]
  • A couple, a 42-year-old, and his wife, a 40-year-old, from Tirupur district of Tamil Nadu, were swept away by a "giant wave" in Kanyakumari, India, on 17 July 2016 while they were taking a selfie.[117]
  • In an incident reported on July 19, two people were taking selfies at Alekan waterfall in Charmadi Ghat, India. The two, Hanumanthappa (34) and Nagabhushan (38), residents of Chitradurga district, lost balance and fell into the waterfall. They were both killed.[118]
  • On July 23 at Amboli Falls, a popular tourist destination in Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, India, a youth fell into a 60-foot-deep gorge while taking a selfie. He died.[119]
  • On July 27, a 24-year-old woman was swept away to her death by the swollen waters of Baandal river near Maldevta area on the outskirts of Dehradun, India. She was taking a selfie at the time of the incident, bringing the toll of selfie deaths in Dehradun to four for the year.[120]
  • On July 30, a national-level athlete slipped and fell into a pond while taking a selfie near a harvesting plant at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bhopal. The 20-year-old, did not know how to swim. Her two companions, who also were unable to swim, ran for help. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.[121][122]
  • On July 31, a 24-year-old Indian man, a well-known local-level wrestler from Bhadohi, fell to his death while taking a selfie near the Vindham waterfall in Uttar Pradesh. A friend who dived into the water to rescue him was taken to the hospital in critical condition.[123][124]

August

  • On August 2, a 22-year-old Florida woman accidentally shot her phone while taking a picture of herself for Snapchat while posing with a 40-caliber pistol. She suffered minor injuries to her hand. The phone was shattered.[125]
  • On August 3, a 22-year-old engineering student from Andhra Pradesh was vacationing with six friends in Tamil Nadu state, South India. While taking a selfie standing on the edge of a 2,000-foot-deep gorge at Vilpatti village on upper Kodaikanal hill, he slipped and plunged to his death.[126]
  • On August 7, a 27-year-old lawyer from India was visiting Mandoshi ghat, near Bhimashanjar. She and her husband were sitting on boulders that form a safety barrier from a 100-foot gorge below. As she positioned herself for a selfie, one of the boulders came loose in wet earth, and she slipped over the edge. Her husband attempted to arrest her fall but was unable to hold on. She sustained head injuries and was taken to hospital by her husband, where she was pronounced dead.[127]
  • On August 9, an 11-year-old Pakistani girl drowned while attempting to take a selfie at the Kunhar River, which flows through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The girl's mother jumped into the fast-moving river to save her but she was also swept away and drowned. On seeing both his daughter and wife in trouble the father jumped in; he also drowned. The dead bodies of the mother and her daughter were found; the father's body was missing. The six-year-old son of the family was a witness of the tragedy.[128][129]
  • On August 12, a 22-year-old student of Kherva Ganpat University, Mehsana in Gujarat, India, climbed a glass dome on the third-floor terrace of a building to take a selfie. The fragile glass collapsed and she plunged 70 feet to the ground floor and was killed. Selfies were subsequently banned at the school in "risky places".[130]
  • On August 12, four Indians aged 15–19 were taking selfies in the ocean surf in Maharashtra. Unsatisfied with the pictures and ignoring a storm, they went further out from shore. They were carried away by a large wave and their bodies not recovered.[131]
  • On August 15, a class 12 student residing at Peelamedu, India, was sightseeing with friends and noticed a huge well dug in a field. While leaning over the edge of the well to take a selfie to show its depth, he slipped and fell in. The well is 120 feet deep with a water level of 60 feet. He died in the well before he could be rescued.[132]
  • On August 16, a 35-year-old Indian woman from Muzaffarnagar was taking a selfie with a gun when it fired. She sustained serious injuries.[133]
  • On August 20, a Pakistani man drowned while attempting to take a selfie at the Kunhar River that flows through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. His cousin jumped in to save him, but she was also swept away and drowned. It was the second selfie-related death incident on the Kunhar River in August.[134]
  • On August 21, three Pakistani women were killed while taking selfies near a road at Lake Saiful Muluk. They were inside a melt hole, or cave, at the front edge of a receding glacier when the roof collapsed and they were crushed.[135][136]

September

  • On September 17 in India, six young women engineering students from Vaagdevi college of Engineering, Bollikunta were standing on a rock at the edge of a reservoir in Warangal district of Telangana, taking selfies. One student slipped and fell into the lake, and one after the next went in to save the other, each subsequently drowning. One student survived, five drowned.[137][138]
  • A 66-year-old Italian tourist visiting Kenya was having breakfast with his wife in a tent at the Swara Camp in Kulalu ranch. He saw wild elephants and approached them closely. While taking a selfie he was charged by an elephant, sustained serious injuries to his leg and died at the camp.[139]

October

  • On October 1, a 19-year-old man from Nepal was taking a selfie when he slipped off a cliff and fell into Dordi stream in Lamjung district. His body was not immediately recovered.[140]
  • On October 1, two teenagers from Hyderabad were taking selfies in a quarry recently filled with rainwater. They went too deep and, unable to swim to shore, they drowned.[141]
  • On October 8, two Sri Lankan girls were visiting Ain Garziz in Oman with their families. While at a picnic, they were taking pictures near a deep spring. One girl slipped into the spring and grabbed the hand of the other. She was unable to pull her companion out and was dragged down into the water where both of the girls drowned.[142]
  • A 25-year-old Indian man fell to his death while taking a selfie with his friends at Lion's Point Valley near Lonavla. He slipped and fell 200 feet (61 m) into a gorge and died on the spot.[143]
  • On October 9, a Chinese woman visiting Sri Lanka fell from a moving train while taking a selfie. She later died from her injuries.[144]
  • On October 11, a student drowned in the river Jaldhaka at Bindu village, Kalimpong subdivision in West Bengal. The body was retrieved four days later.[145]
  • A 25-year-old software engineer fell into a river and drowned in Gajapati, Odisha, India, while taking a selfie.[146]
  • A 12-year-old Russian schoolgirl climbed over a balcony on the 17th floor of a building and fell while taking a selfie.[147]

November

  • On November 11, two students drowned while taking selfies; they were swept away by currents in the Nagarjuna Sagar canal.[148][149]

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