ISLAMABAD: A woman fell into Balakot’s river Kunhar and drowned while trying to take a selfie and his cousin also drowned in an attempt to save him.The woman standing on a rock slipped into the river and her cousin jumped into the water to rescue her but both were swept away, stated Arshad Khan, head of Balakot police station, a private news channel reported. The local divers fished out the bodies and handed them over to their family. The incident is the latest in a string of selfie deaths that have occurred with the rise of smart phones.
Earlier this week, a girl drowned after falling into River Kunhar while attempting to take a selfie. Her parents who tried to save her also drowned, officials said.
River Kunhar flows through Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province at a hilly tourist spot in Beesian village, some 200 kilometres **rth of Islamabad. The deep rocky and fast flowing river is popular for white water rafting.
On July 5, Peruvian police recovered the body of a South Korean tourist under a waterfall in the Amazon jungle days after he fell in while taking a photo of himself. A week earlier, a 51-year old German tourist plunged 200 metres to his death while posing for a photo on a mountain side at Peru’s top archaeological site Machu Picchu.
08-22-2016, 03:40 AM
Woman, her cousin drown while taking selfie
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