3 Bengaluru Boys Crushed By Train; Possibly Taking Selfies, Say Cops
BANGALURU : Three Bengaluru boys were crushed to death by a moving train while they were busy taking a selfie on Tuesday morning. The incident was reported from Bidadi which is 30 km away from the Karnataka capital.
The police informed that the boys were completely unknown from the fact that train was approaching them while they took selfie. The impact of train was such that the bodies of boys were difficult to recognise after the accident. This is not first of a kind case where obsession with selfie has resulted in fatal accident.The trio had just visited Wonderla, an amusement park near Bengaluru, the police said.
Last week, 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 teen’s body in the
Police said that the deceased, a resident of Hanumantha Nagar along with 25 other fellow NCC cadets were picnicking with his friends in Ravagondhu Betta in Karnataka’s Kanakpura district. Vishwas drowned in the 300-year-old Kalyana, a stepped pond, when he along with his friends entered the water in afternoon. (With Agency Inputs ).
