An express train killed as many as three college students on Tuesday while they were taking photos of themselves on a track in India.
India is said to be the country with the world’s worst record for selfie deaths.
According to Agence France Presse, AFP, the three were photographing themselves on a railway bridge when the train hit them in the town of Bidadi in the southern state of Karnataka, police said.
“We found their mutilated bodies on the track and investigations have been taken up,” R S Bylanjaiah, a local railway police officer, told AFP.
He said the three had parked their motorbikes on the embankment below the 30-metre (100 foot) bridge before walking to its centre to take pictures.
Last month a man was crushed to death by an elephant when he tried to take a selfie with him in the eastern state of Odisha.
A study by scholars from Carnegie Mellon University and Indraprastha Institute of Information Delhi found that of 127 reported selfie deaths worldwide from March 2014 to September 2016, 76 of them occurred in India.
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