Seven youths killed while clicking selfie in the River Ganges in Kanpur

Clicking selfies is the latest craze among youngsters and several deaths have been reported while clicking selfies. And, in the latest instance, seven youths of Kanpur lost their lives due to this. Clicking a selfie turned into a disaster for a 19-year-old and six of his friends - all of them drowned in the Ganga while trying to save one another.
This has been reported in ndtv.com dated 23 June 2016.

The incident happened when seven youngsters, most of them in early twenties, went for a swim in the Ganges river after rainfall. One of them was clicking a selfie while bathing when he lost his balance and started drowning. His friend tried to save him but he too lost his balance due to the high level of water level and high current following heavy rainfall.
Subsequently, all the other friends jumped in one after another to save them but drowned in the attempt. A team of divers retrieved the bodies of the seven youths after two hours. All of them have been identified. There was a similar incident in Mumbai in January when three girls had fallen into the Arabian Sea while clicking selfies on a rock jutting out of the sea near Bandra Fort. A man who was nearby had jumped in to save them and had drowned in the attempt.


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