Three boys from Bengaluru were run over by a train this morning in Bidadi, around 30 km from the Karnataka capital. The police are investigating whether they were taking a selfie without realising how close they were to the oncoming train.
The police told NDTV that the boys died between 9:30 and 10 am. Two of the boys have been identified; they were studying in the National College in Bengaluru.
The trio had just visited Wonderla an amusement park near Bengaluru, the police told NDTV.
This is the second case in weeks of lives lost because of a selfie obsession.
Last week, a selfie taken by a group of students - incidentally also from the National College but a different branch in Bengaluru - showed one of them drowning in the background in a large pond on the outskirts of the IT hub. But no one in the group realized it at the time.
17-year-old Vishwas G was part of a group of 25 cadets from the National College in Bengaluru who entered a 10 feet deep pond in the Ramanagram district on September 24.
After taking the selfie, the group left the pond to visit a temple without noticing that Vishwas was missing. Later, a student scrolling through the photos they had taken earlier spotted Vishwas' head disappearing under water. The students then contacted the police who discovered the student's body in the pond.
