Summary The boy misjudged the distance between him and the train and was run over by it.
CHENNAI (Web Desk/ AFP) – A 16-year-old student in Indian state Chennai died on Sunday evening while attempting to click a selfie with a speeding train in the background.
The victim was a student of Grade 11 and was returning home with his friends after visiting a zoological park.
On his way back to home, the boy noticed the Chennai Beach-Chengalpattu electric train speeding by and decided to photograph himself with the train in the background.
Tragically, the boy misjudged the distance between him and the train and was run over by it.
"It was a freak accident. More youngsters are now addicted to taking selfies," railway police officer S. Ramuthai from the Chennai suburb of Tambaram told AFP.
The accident comes just weeks after police in the western city of Mumbai moved to crack down on dangerous selfies after a man drowned trying to save a girl who fell into the sea snapping one.
Police identified 16 dangerous selfie spots in Mumbai and have asked the local council to erect warning signs and deploy lifeguards.
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A 23-year-old tourist also died while clicking selfie at the Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur city on January 19.
In May last year a Russian woman accidentally shot herself in the head with a pistol while posing for a selfie with the weapon.
And US investigators last February said a pilot s repeated snapping of selfie photos caused a small plane to crash, killing both people on board.
According to a report, India is leading in selfie related deaths with 27 people falling prey to it in 2015.
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