The selfie mania claimed yet more lives this weekend as three teenage girls fell into the sea after they clambered onto the slippery rocks at Bandra Bandstand to click pictures. Seeing them in trouble, a 35-year-old local, Ramesh Walanju, jumped in and pulled out two of them, but neither the third girl nor he managed to make it back from the waves.

This is not the first time that the selfie obsession has caused needless loss of lives. Some time ago, 14-year-old S Eshwarkar died after he accidentally touched an overhead cable while trying to click a selfie atop a train parked at a Central Railway car shed. Another teenager, Ganesh K sustained 90% burns and died after he accidentally touched a 25,000-volt overhead wire at the Jogeshwari railway yard. He too was trying to click a train rooftop selfie.