Fatal Selfie Fever! When desire to take that 'perfect' picture claimed lives

Selfie fever has gripped the world and theres is little that can be done to stop its spread And while clicking selfies isnt normally a dangerous activity the mania for unusual and unique angles has made it an action that can be fatalThese are cautionary tales that are unlikely to have any effect on people looking for their perfect sefliesThe rapidly rising number of selfie fatalities is a cause of concern Wednesday saw two tragedies taking place in India While one saw two Class X students drowning in the river in search of that scenic picture the other took place in our backyard of Khandala where a Mumbaikar lost his liveIn light of the tragic incidents in UP and Khandala here are some instances when taking selfies led to loss of livesFive rescuers drown while selfie girl livesSelfie craze claimed five more lives but even more sad was the fact that the lives lost were of five people who tried to rescue the person who fell into a reservoir while clicking a selfie on her mobile phone Five engineering students including two girls drowned in a reservoir in Warangal district of Telangana on SaturdayThe deceased who were all third year engineering students in computer scienceat Warangals Vagdevi Engineering College jumped into the water to rescue Ramya Pratyusha who accidentally fell in the lake while taking a selfieWhile Pratyusha was saved the others drowned READ MOREMumbaikar falls in Khandala valleyThe Khandala valley where the tragedy took placeClicking selfie at a Khandala quarry turned fatal for a 36yearold Mumbai man The incident took place on Tuesday evening around 6 pm and his body was found in 200 feet quarry on Wednesday afternoon The deceased have been identified as Santosh Gothad 36 a resident of Golibar Maidan Santacruz in Mumbai Santosh along with his friend Pancham Ravidas didnt pay heed to official warnings and climbed the valley to take selfie with waterfall as backdrop Santosh slipped and lost his balance and fell down in Kachal quarry of Khandala ghat READ MORETwo class X students drown in UPs Kosi riverIn what was another case of selfie fever claiming lives a dozen Class X students were swept away while clicking selfies in the Kosi river in UPs Rampur district According to media reports the students who were tehre for a picnic had waded deep into the river to click the perfect selfie when they swept away by the sudden flow of the water that was released from the nearby Lalpur dam The bodies of the two deceased boys Saif Ali Khan and Faizi were recovered four hours laterTourist dies while taking selfie at Machu Picchu ruinsA 51yearold German tourist plummeted to his death while pretending to fly for a selfie atop Machu Picchu ruins in Peru Oliver Park lost his balance while leaping to imitate flying and fell off the cliffAnother selfie stunt proves fatal as two HSC students drown in Nashik damAjinkya Gaikar and Saurabh ChulbhareTwo HSC students from Pune became the victims of selfie fever as they drowned at a dam in Nashik on February 15 2016 The duo was part of a group of 10 childhood friends who had gone on a picnic to enjoy themselves before their HSC exams which begin in a few days READ MORESeven drown in Ganga at Kanpur as selfie session goes awrySeven youngsters were swept away in the Ganga river in Kanpur on Wednesday when one of them slipped into the river while taking a selfie and the others tried to save him police saidSix bodies have been fished out of the river while a search was on to find the seventh body while one boy survived the ordeal READ MORETragic 15yearold boy who shot himself while taking selfie diesA 15yearold boy Ramandeep Singh died at a Ludhiana hospital after sustaining a bullet injury to his head while taking a selfie with his fathers revolver The teenager had sustained a bullet injury while taking a selfie with his mobile phone with a 32 bore revolver pointed to his head The gun went off accidentally With the bullet lodged in his head the critically injured teen was shifted to a hospital in Ludhiana READ MOREMurud tragedy Students were taking selfies when a wave drowned themMurud tragedy Students were taking selfies when a wave drowned themLocals helping transport a survivor to the hospital at Murud near Alibag on Monday PICSUDHIR NAZREDespite warnings from locals and faculty members about the high tide students from Punes Abeda Inamdar College ventured into the sea at Murud to click pictures on February 1 2016What was supposed to be a funfilled daylong picnic at the Murud beach for the batch of 116 students ended in tragedy after 14 of them drowned READ MOREBoy run over by train while trying to click selfie in ChennaiA selfie moment ended in a tragedy for a 16yearold student who was run over by a train while trying to click a picture of himself besides the train Dinesh Kumar a Std XI student was walking along the railway track with a friend at suburban Vandalur on Sunday evening when the incident happened the police said He tried to click a picture of himself with the speeding suburban train behind him when it ran over him killing the teenager on the spot READ MORESelfie proves fatal for tourist at Jodhpurs Mehrangarh FortThe craze for a selfie turned fatal for a 23yearold tourist to the Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthans Jodhpur city on in January 2016 The man identified as Nikhil was trying to click a selfie on Tuesday evening when he fell down from the ramparts of the fort in Jodhpur over 350 km from Jaipur READ MOREGirl slips at Bandra seaface while taking a selfie rescuer feared drownedA college girl and a local resident drowned at Bandra Bandstand in January 2016 Like many others the girl was taking selfies with her friends when they fell in the water The rocky terrain at such spots is one of the reasons the fire brigade is unwilling to deploy lifeguards there PicOnkar Devlekar A college girl and a youth who jumped into the waters to save her drowned in the sea off Bandra Bandstand in Mumbai in January 2016 police said Three college girls all residents of Bainganwadi in suburban Govandi aged between 18 and 19 years had gone to the seaface to picnic They were clicking selfies when one of them Taranum slipped into the sea he said Hearing their screams a local youth Rajesh Walunj a local resident jumped in and managed to fish out two of them When he dived in again to locate Tarranum Shaikh he disappeared READ MOREMumbai Selfie stunt on train roof kills 14yearold boy14yearold Sahil ChandrakantEshwarkar sustained 80 per cent burns when he accidentally touched an overhead cable while trying to click a selfie on a train parked at car shed near Nahur station in November 2015 The teenager from Kanjurmarg succumbed to the burn injuries he sustained due to electrocution According to the Kurla GRP officials Sahil a Std IX student of St Xaviers High School Kanjurmarg had gone to play football with his friends The police officer said that Sahil and his friends were clicking selfies on the train when the boy got electrocuted after accidentally touching an overhead cable He was thrown off the train READ MOREMumbai Boy tries to click selfie atop train suffers 25000V electric shockA 16yearoldrsquos desire to click selfies while committing acts of daredevilry led to him sustaining an electric shock from a 25000volt overhead wire in January 2015 16yearold Ganesh Kumkumawati sustained 90 per cent burns after he accidentally touched a 25000volt overhead wire at the Jogeshwari railway yard The boy had gone to the Jogeshwari railway yard with his friends and was clicking photos of himself committingacts of daredevilry READ MOREWatch video Japanese tourist falls to his death at Taj Mahal in AgraA 66yearold Japanese tourist died after allegedly falling down a flight of stairs at the historic Taj Mahal in Agra The man was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead WATCH VIDEOFatal selfie Man shoots himself in the head while posing with loaded gunA Mexican veterinary doctors search for an impressive profile picture turned tragic when he shot himself in the head and died on the way to hospital in New York Oscar Otero Aguilar 21 had several pictures posted on his Facebook page posing in front of fast cars sitting on expensive motorbikes hugging beautiful women and even posing in a musical band His craze turned tragic when Aguilar decided to take some pictures as he waved around a borrowed gun The loaded gun went off in his hand injuring him seriously READ MOREPilot taking selfies led to fatal US air crashAccording to US investigators a pilot who died when he crashed his small aircraft was distracted because he was taking cell phone selfies in the cockpit likely contributing to the fatal accident The 29yearold and a passenger were killed instantly when his Cessna 150K smashed into a field on May 31 2014 A National Transportation Safety Board NTSB probe using GoPro video taken in the cockpit indicated that the pilot repeatedly took selfie photos with his phone leading up to the accident READ MOREFemale tourist plunges to death in Spain while taking selfieA 23yearold Polish tourist plunged to her death while trying to take a selfie in Seville in SpainMedical student Sylwia Rajchel slipped while taking a selfportrait on the ledge of the Puente de Triana bridgemedia reports said She fell 15 feet onto the concrete footings of the structure and succumbed to her injuries READ MOREPolish couple fall off cliff in Portugal and die while taking selfiesA Polish couple slipped and died after falling from a cliff edge in Portugal while they were busy taking a selfie The incident occurred at the cliff edge at Cabo de Roca a popular tourist destination near Lisbon The couple reportedly went past a barrier set up to keep people off the cliff edge READ MOREYouth electrocuted while taking selfie on locomotive in AP criticalAn 18yearold engineering student was critically injured after he was allegedly electrocuted while taking a selfie on a stationary locomotive near railway station Rajahmundryin East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh The mishap occurred when K Sateesh a student of Gitam University in Visakhapatnam came in contact with a hightension wire while he was taking a snap in his mobile phone after climbing on the parked engine in a shed while five of his friends stood near the loco said RPF Circle Inspector C Sarath Babu READ MOREPolice kill Pakistani teen taking selfies with toy gunA teenager taking selfies with a toy gun was shot dead by police personnel who suspected him to be a robber in Pakistans Punjab province Farhan 15 was taking selfies with the toy gun along with a friend in Faisalabad city on Monday when police mistook him to be a criminal and opened fire at him without any warning reported Geo News READ MOREWoman shoots herself in head while taking selfieA 21yearold Russian woman has been critically wounded after accidentally shooting herself in the head with a pistol while posing for a selfie The woman found a 9mm handgun left behind by a security guard at her office in Moscow and decided take a selfie while posing with the firearm Holding the gun close to her head the young woman accidentally pulled the guns trigger and shot herself through the temple READ MORE