Three teenagers were killed while taking selfies on a railway track in India, the country which researchers say has the worst record for selfie-related deaths.
"The victims were busy taking selfies and when they saw a train approaching they jumped to a second track without realising another train was coming on that," MS Dabas told AFP.The group had come to Panipat to attend a wedding. Two of those killed were 19 years old and the third was 18. A study last year by researchers from the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences said 259 people across the world had died while taking selfies between 2011 and 2017.
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