Almost 300 deads!
| Date | Country | Deaths | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2011 |  United States | 3 | Transport | Three teenagers (two sisters, 15 and 13, and a friend, aged 15) were killed by a Union Pacific train while posing for a selfie that was found on their phone near Salt Lake City. Shortly before, they posted the message “Standing right by a train ahaha this is awesome!!!!” to Facebook. |
| March 2014 |  Spain | 1 | Electrocution | A 21-year-old man was electrocuted and hospitalized in serious condition after climbing on top of a train to take a selfie with his friends and touching a live electric wire. |
| March 2014 |  Russia | 1 | Transport | Two people were walking near train tracks when a train approached them; one of the people on the tracks moved away, and the second person, a 15-year-old, was attempting to take a selfie when she was struck by the train and was killed. |
| April 2014 | United States | 1 | Transport | A 32-year-old woman from North Carolina died after her vehicle crossed the center median on Interstate 85 in the Greensboro–Winston-Salem area, upon which it collided with a recycling truck, left the road, hit a tree, and burst into flames – moments after posting selfies online when she heard Pharrell Williams‘s song “Happy” playing on radio station WKZL inside her car. The truck driver was reportedly unharmed after the fatal crash. |
| 22 April 2014 | Russia | 1 | Fall | A 17-year-old girl fell 30 feet (9.1 m) to her death after being hit by 1,500 volts when attempting to grab live wires on a railway bridge. |
| May 2014 |  India | 1 | Transport | A 15-year-old boy was killed by a train while posing for a selfie on the tracks. |
| 31 May 2014 | United States | 2 | Transport | A 29-year-old amateur pilot allegedly took selfies using a GoPro camera before his plane crashed at a plain grassy field in Colorado, killing himself and the passenger on board. |
| June 2014 |  Italy | 1 | Fall | A 16-year-old girl died in Taranto after plunging 60 feet (18 m) onto rocks while she was trying to take a selfie on the seafront. |
| July 2014 |  Philippines | 1 | Fall | A 14-year-old high school student fell to her death after losing her balance while taking a selfie with a friend near a staircase landing of their school in Pasig. She sustained a sharp blow to the head from the fall and broke a rib, which pierced a kidney. |
| 24 July 2014 |  Belgium | 1 | Transport | A 12-year-old was with a second person taking selfies near a railway track. A train arrived and they went back down onto the tracks to retrieve their bags. As they were waiting for the train to leave, a second train approached that they did not hear. The second person jumped away before the train collided with them, but the 12-year-old was hit by the train and killed. |
| August 2014 | Philippines | 0 | Firearm | A 15-year-old boy was critically wounded after accidentally shooting himself while taking a selfie in which his other hand was holding a gun to his chin. |
| 2 August 2014 |  Mexico | 1 | Firearm | A 21-year-old man was drinking with friends and took a selfie to post on Facebook. He posed with a gun pointed at his face. The man accidentally shot himself and was declared dead at the scene. |
| August 2014 |  Portugal | 2 | Fall | A Polish couple fell to their death off a cliff after crossing a safety barrier to take a selfie with their two children, who survived. |
| August 2014 | India | 1 | Electrocution | In Kerala, a 14-year-old boy was electrocuted while attempting to take a selfie on top of a stationary train. |
| August 2014 | United States | 1 | Transport | A 36-year-old man from Niagara, North Dakota, struck and killed a 54-year-old woman while driving. She was riding a bicycle and he was distracted as he took a selfie, striking her from behind with his vehicle. |
| 12 October 2014 | Philippines | 1 | Drowned | An 18-year-old woman was posing for a group selfie on a beach with friends when she was caught by a strong wave and drowned. |
| November 2014 | Spain | 1 | Fall | A 23-year-old Polish student fell to her death while trying to take a selfie on the ledge of the Triana Bridge in Seville. |
| January 2015 |  South Africa | 1 | Fall | A 21-year-old woman died after falling from Northcliff Hill, Johannesburg, as a male companion was setting up a tripod for a selfie. |
| January 2015 | Russia | 2 | Other | Two young men died in the Ural Mountains after they pulled the pin from a live hand grenade to take a selfie. The phone with the picture remained as evidence of the incident. |
| January 2015 | India | 3 | Transport | Three students aged 20 to 22 died trying to take a “daredevil selfie” close to an oncoming train on railway tracks in Mathura. |
| 4 February 2015 | India | 1 | Transport | A 24-year-old Israeli man traveling on a train from Mumbai to Goa was attempting to take a selfie and fell out of the moving train, resulting in his death. |
| 21 February 2015 | United States | 1 | Transport | A man in Kalama, Washington, stepped out onto a railroad track to take a selfie with himself and a woman with a passing Amtrak train in the background. The man misjudged which track the oncoming train was on, and was struck and killed at the scene. |
| March 2015 | India | 7 | Drowned | Seven people drowned while taking selfies on Mangrul Lake near Kuhi, about 20 km from Nagpur. Their boat had tipped over as they were standing up to pose. |
| 1 April 2015 | Italy | 1 | Fall | A 60-year-old German tourist skiing in the Trentino-Alto Adige region was reported missing when he failed to pick up his children from ski school. Subsequent investigation found that while skiing alone, he took off his skis and went off-trail to take a selfie next to a cliff, where he slipped and plunged approximately 660 feet (200 m) to his death. |
| April 2015 |  Serbia | 1 | Transport | A 22-year-old man was trying to recreate a scene from his favorite movie Barking at the Stars by running in front of a train, beating it and being hailed a hero. As he ran in front of the train, he tried to take a selfie to document the scene. He was killed instantly when the express train hit him at full speed in the village of Laćarak near the town of Sremska Mitrovica. |
| May 2015 |  Romania | 1 | Electrocution | An 18-year-old woman died when she attempted to take the “ultimate selfie”, posing with a friend on top of a train in Iași when her leg touched a live wire above which electrocuted her with 27,000 volts. Her 17-year-old companion was hospitalised. |
| May 2015 | Russia | 1 | Electrocution | A teenage boy climbed on a railway bridge in Ryazan Oblast to take a selfie and died when he came in contact with live wires. |
| May 2015 | Russia | 0 | Firearm | A 21-year-old woman found a 9-millimeter rubber-bullet pistol left by a security guard at her office, used it for taking a selfie, and accidentally shot herself in the head, sustaining severe injuries. |
| May 2015 |  Indonesia | 1 | Fall | A 21-year-old man fell into the crater of Mount Merapi while attempting to take a selfie and died. |
| May 2015 | Indonesia | 1 | Fall | A Singaporean tourist died after falling into the sea while taking a selfie on a cliff in Nusa Lembongan, off the coast of Bali. |
| June 2015 |  Pakistan | 1 | Firearm, shot by police | A 15-year-old boy was taking selfies with a toy gun when police opened fire on him, killing him. |
| June 2015 | Russia | 0 | Electrocution | Two teenage girls received electric shocks, but survived, at a railroad yard in Taganrog. They tried to climb on the tank car of an old freight train that was standing at the platform in order to take a selfie, but did not realize it was still in use and on a live track. |
| June 2015 |  Croatia | 1 | Fall | A 54-year-old Slovak tourist visiting Plitvice Lakes National Park fell to her death from a rock while taking a selfie. |
| July 2015 | Russia | 1 | Fall | A 21-year-old university graduate died after falling from a bridge while she was trying to take a selfie next to the Moscow International Business Center. |
| July 2015 | United States | 0 | Animal | A man from San Diego was hospitalised for five days following an attempt to take a selfie with a rattlesnake which then bit him. |
| July 2015 | United States | 0 | Animal | A woman in Yellowstone National Park was gored by an American bison while taking a selfie. She was treated for injuries. |
| July 2015 | Philippines | 1 | Transport | A woman vacationing in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, was hit by a motorcycle while taking a selfie by the side of a scenic road. She was taken to hospital and died. |
| 9 August 2015 | Spain | 1 | Animal | A man was gored to death in the annual bull-running festival in Villaseca de la Sagra while trying to take a selfie with a bull. |
| August 2015 |  China | 1 | Fall | A man was discovered with his phone and selfie stick at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff at Long Men waterfall in Zhejiang. Based on photographic evidence on his phone, police speculated that he lost his footing while taking a selfie and fell to his death. It was not known when he died or how long his body had been there. |
| August 2015 | Russia | 1 | Electrocution | A 14-year-old girl died after being shocked with a live wire when trying to take a selfie on a train. |
| September 2015 | United States | 1 | Firearm | A 19-year-old from Houston died after trying to take an Instagram selfie while holding a loaded gun to his head. He accidentally fired the gun and shot himself in the throat. |
| September 2015 | India | 1 | Fall | A Japanese tourist fell off a staircase to his death while taking a selfie at the Taj Mahal, Agra. |
| September 2015 | Russia | 1 | Fall | 17-year-old student Andrey Retrovsky from Vologda fell to his death attempting to take a selfie while hanging from a rope from a nine-story building. The rope snapped. Retrovsky was known for taking ‘extreme’ selfies and posting them to his Instagram account drewsssik. |
| September 2015 | India | 1 | Fall | An engineering student died while taking selfies with friends at Kolli Hills, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, when the rock on which he was standing cracked and gave way, plunging him 60 feet (18 m) and causing his death from head injuries. |
| October 2015 | Spain | 0 | Electrocution | A 14-year-old from Barcelona was hospitalised with electric shock after trying to take a selfie on the roof of a train car. |
| October 2015 |  Chile | 1 | Other | A 68-year-old Belgian woman was visiting the El Tatio geyser field located within the Andes Mountains of Norte Grande. While attempting to take a selfie in front of an active geyser she stepped backwards and fell into the scalding hot water. Her husband pulled her out, but she died in hospital days later from burns over 85 percent of her body. |
| November 2015 | India | 2 | Drowned | Two engineering students of Wadhwan, Gujarat, drowned in the Narmada Canal after slipping down the bank while taking selfies. |
| November 2015 | India | 1 | Transport | A first-year college student Sourav Dey died and another was critically injured in the Kalyani area in Nadia district, West Bengal after they were run over by a train while they were taking selfies. |
| November 2015 | India | 1 | Electrocution | A 14-year-old boy, who was trying to take a selfie atop a stationary train wagon at Nahur station yard in Mumbai, was electrocuted and died a few hours later. He accidentally came in contact with a 25,000-volt overhead wire and suffered 80 percent burns. |
| December 2015 | Pakistan | 1 | Transport | A 22-year-old man in Rawalpindi died while attempting to take a selfie on a track in front of a moving train. |
| December 2015 |  Turkey | 2 | Transport | Five intoxicated teenagers laid down in the middle of the road near an airport to take a selfie with a plane landing in the background. It was at night, and a truck driver did not see them and accidentally ran them over, killing two of them. |
| 1 January 2016 | India | 1 | Transport | A 16-year-old boy was killed by a passenger train while taking a selfie with an approaching train in Chennai. The teen reportedly walked in front of the train and waited for it to come closer before taking the photo. |
| 5 January 2016 | Philippines | 1 | Fall | A 19-year-old student fell to her death from the top of a 20-story apartment building in Manila while taking a selfie. According to her classmate, “she was not satisfied with the photos they had taken so she decided to climb up the parapet wall”. |
| 7 January 2016 |  Brazil | 1 | Fall | A 27-year-old man fell into the sea and died after an attempt to take a selfie on the rocks of Cantão do Indaiá in Bertioga, on the coast of São Paulo. |
| 9 January 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 20-year-old fell to his death while taking a selfie from the top of the Reasi Fort at Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 9 January 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | A 20-year-old college student drowned at Bandstand Promenade in Bandra, Mumbai. She is believed to have been swept away in the high tide. According to the woman’s friends, they were taking selfies while standing on the rock, close to the Bandra–Worli Sea Link (BWSL). “The girls were standing 50 metres away from the shore when the water suddenly rose. They did not notice the water rising, and remained on the rock taking pictures (selfies). One of the girls was pulled into the water due to high tide.” A man also drowned after going into the water to rescue the girl. |
| 12 February 2016 | India | 3 | Drowned | Three students of Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences drowned after falling in an irrigation canal in Hulivana village, 180 km from Bengaluru, reportedly while they were taking selfies. |
| 13 February 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | An 18-year-old college student drowned after falling off of the Waldevi Dam in Nashik, while taking a selfie. His 18-year-old friend jumped into the water in an attempt to save him, but also drowned. |
| 22 February 2016 | India | 0 | Fall | Five people in Anjuna, Goa, fell off a cliff and were injured after a gate they were leaning on collapsed during a group selfie. |
| 29 February 2016 |  Nepal | 1 | Drowned | A Nepalese woman drowned in the Narayani River. She dived into the river to save her friend who slipped into the water while the two were taking selfies together near the bank. The woman who originally fell was rescued, but her friend who tried to save her drowned. |
| 2 March 2016 | United States | 1 | Firearm | A 43-year-old man in Concrete, Washington, accidentally shot himself in the face with a gun and died while taking a selfie. He was unaware that the gun was loaded. |
| 5 March 2016 |  Australia | 1 | Firearm | A 22-year-old from Melbourne was shot in the face with a sawn-off shotgun while posing for a selfie with the gun. The gun was fired by a friend who was holding it. The shooter fled the scene and was charged with murder. |
| 12 March 2016 |  Hong Kong | 1 | Fall | A 30-year-old man fell off Lion Rock while taking a selfie and died. |
| 5 April 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 16-year-old climbed a rock fountain at a zoo in Hyderabad, apparently to take a selfie. He slipped and fell into the water, and may have hit his head on a rock. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. |
| 15 April 2016 | India | 2 | Transport | Two youths were run over by a train while taking selfies on the railway tracks at Purusottampur railway crossing in the Chunar area in Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 16 April 2016 | Brazil | 0 | Fall | A 27-year-old woman fell from a height of 35m at a waterfall in the Ibitipoca State Park in Minas Gerais. She was rescued by the fire department and survived. |
| 16 April 2016 | India | 1 | Transport | A 16-year-old boy died while taking a selfie at a railway crossing in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 21 April 2016 | Brazil | 1 | Fall | In Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, a 32-year-old woman died after she fell in a waterfall while attempting a selfie. |
| 26 April 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | While taking a selfie, a 25-year-old fell off the Dolphin Nose cliff near Vattakanal village, 8 km from the Kodaikanal Lake, Tamil Nadu. |
| 1 May 2016 | India | 1 | Firearm | A 15-year-old boy from Pathankot died after he accidentally shot himself with his father’s revolver while taking a selfie with the gun pointed at his head. |
| May 2016 | China | 2 | Animal | A businessman at a wildlife park in Rongcheng, Shandong, was drowned by a walrus after taking several selfies and videos with the animal. A zookeeper was also drowned in the same incident after attempting to save the man. |
| 3 June 2016 | India | 1 | Drowned | An 18-year-old boy drowned in the Ganges river while taking a selfie after bathing with his mother and a friend in Nabadwip, West Bengal. |
| 3 June 2016 | United States | 1 | Firearm | A 15-year-old from Overland, Missouri, accidentally shot and killed himself while attempting to take a selfie at home posing with his father’s gun. |
| 12 June 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | A 23-year-old fell into the water and drowned at Sindhrot Check Dam near Vadodara while taking a selfie. His friend jumped into the water to save him, but he also drowned. |
| 18 June 2016 | United States | 1 | Fall | A 37-year-old EMS lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department was mountain climbing near Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains and was on a ledge at the top of Roaring Brook Falls preparing to take a selfie when she disappeared from sight. Rescue services found her body in the water at the base of the falls. |
| 22 June 2016 | India | 7 | Drowned | Seven people aged 16 to 31 were swept away and drowned while taking a selfie in the river Ganges in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. According to police, they had gone for a picnic at Kanpur Ganges Barrage when one of the party tried to take a selfie by standing on the edge of the barrage and tripped and fell into the river, which was already in spate due to rains. The six others, in an attempt to save him, jumped into the river but were themselves swept away by the current. |
| 22 June 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A third year engineering student of a Lonavla-based college lost his balance while taking a selfie from the Amrutanjan Bridge and fell down next to the Mumbai Pune Expressway in Maharashtra. He died on the spot. |
| 29 June 2016 |  Peru | 1 | Fall | A 28-year-old South Korean tourist plunged 1,600 feet (490 m) off a cliff at the Gocta Cataracts in the Amazonas Region while attempting to take a picture of himself. Divers and mountain rescue teams were brought in to recover the body submerged more than 20 feet (6.1 m) underwater at the base of the falls. |
| 29 June 2016 | Peru | 1 | Fall | A 51-year-old German tourist visiting Machu Picchu fell 130 feet (40 m) to his death after he lost his footing while leaping into the air for a “flying selfie”. |
| 1 July 2016 | Croatia | 0 | Fall | A 20-year-old Canadian tourist fell off a viewpoint 75 meters (246 ft) high in the Plitvice Lakes National Park while trying to take a selfie. His fall was broken by tree branches and he survived with injuries. |
| 2 July 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 32-year-old died after he fell in a 150 feet (46 m) deep gorge while taking a selfie near Chunakhaal on Dehradun-Mussoorie road in Uttarakhand. |
| 6 July 2016 | India | 4 | Drowned | Four students were taking selfies near Purva waterfall on Tamsa River in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh. They were unaware of an oncoming flash flood, and all four were swept away and drowned. |
| 12 July 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 36-year-old and a friend climbed to a mountain peak at Khandala against warnings. There they took selfies with a waterfall in the background, but the 36-year-old slipped and fell into a 200-foot-deep quarry and died. |
| 12 July 2016 | Nepal | 1 | Animal | A truck driver stopped for a herd of 21 wild elephants crossing the road. The driver exited his vehicle to take a selfie with the animals when the herd attacked and killed him. |
| 13 July 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | Two students drowned while taking selfies at Kosi Dam near Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. A group of students were taking selfies and became trapped in a vortex; the rest were saved. |
| 13 July 2016 |  Vietnam | 2 | Transport | In Hung Yen, two men aged 21 and 28 were hit and killed by a train while taking a selfie on the tracks. Bystanders attempted to warn the two men, but they could not hear them due to wearing earphones. |
| 17 July 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | A married couple ages 40 and 42 were swept away by a “giant wave” in Kanyakumari while they were taking a selfie. |
| 19 July 2016 | India | 2 | Fall | Two people were taking selfies at Alekan waterfall in Charmadi Ghat. The two, Hanumanthappa (34) and Nagabhushan (38), lost balance and fell into the waterfall. They were both killed. |
| 23 July 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | At Amboli Falls in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra, a youth fell into a 60-foot-deep gorge while taking a selfie and died. |
| 27 July 2016 | India | 1 | Drowned | A 24-year-old woman was swept away to her death by the swollen waters of the Baandal river near Maldevta area on the outskirts of Dehradun while taking a selfie at the time of the incident. |
| 30 July 2016 | India | 1 | Drowned | A 20-year-old athlete slipped and fell into a pond while taking a selfie near a harvesting plant at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bhopal. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. |
| 31 July 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 24-year-old man fell to his death while taking a selfie near the Vindham waterfall in Uttar Pradesh. A friend who dove into the water to rescue him was hospitalized. |
| 2 August 2016 | United States | 0 | Firearm | A 22-year-old Florida woman accidentally shot her phone while taking a picture of herself for Snapchat while posing with a .40 caliber pistol. She suffered minor injuries to her hand. The phone was shattered. |
| 3 August 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 22-year-old student was vacationing with six friends in Tamil Nadu. While taking a selfie standing on the edge of a 2,000-foot-deep gorge at Vilpatti village on upper Kodaikanal hill, he slipped and plunged to his death. |
| 7 August 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 27-year-old woman was visiting Mandoshi ghat, near Bhimashanjar. She and her husband were sitting on boulders that formed a safety barrier from a 100-foot gorge below. As she positioned herself for a selfie, one of the boulders came loose in wet earth, and she slipped over the edge. Her husband attempted to stop her fall, but was unable to hold on. She sustained head injuries and was taken to hospital by her husband, where she was pronounced dead. |
| 9 August 2016 | Pakistan | 3 | Drowned | An 11-year-old girl drowned while attempting to take a selfie at the Kunhar River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The girl’s mother jumped into the fast-moving river to save her, but was also swept away and drowned. On seeing both his daughter and wife in trouble, the father jumped in; he also drowned. The dead bodies of the mother and her daughter were found; the father’s body was missing. |
| 12 August 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 22-year-old student of Kherva Ganpat University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India, climbed a glass dome on the third-floor terrace of a building to take a selfie. The fragile glass collapsed, and she fell 70 feet (21 m) to the ground floor and was killed. Selfies were subsequently banned at the school in “risky places”. |
| 12 August 2016 | India | 4 | Drowned | Four teenagers aged 15–19 took selfies in the ocean surf at Maharashtra during a storm. They were swept away by a large wave, and their bodies were never recovered. |
| 15 August 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A class 12 student residing at Peelamedu was sightseeing with friends and noticed a huge well dug in a field. While leaning over the edge of the well to take a selfie to show its depth, he slipped and fell in. The well was 120 feet (37 m) deep with a water level of 60 feet (18 m). He died in the well before he could be rescued. |
| 16 August 2016 | India | 0 | Firearm | A 35-year-old woman from Muzaffarnagar was taking a selfie with a gun when it fired. She sustained serious injuries. |
| 20 August 2016 | Pakistan | 2 | Drowned | A man drowned while attempting to take a selfie at the Kunhar River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. His cousin jumped in to save him, but she was also swept away and drowned. |
| 21 August 2016 | Pakistan | 3 | Other | Three women were killed while taking selfies near a road at Lake Saiful Muluk. They were inside a melt hole, or cave, at the front edge of a receding glacier when the roof collapsed and they were crushed. |
| 17 September 2016 | India | 5 | Drowned | Six young women students were standing on a rock at the edge of a reservoir in Hanumakonda district of Telangana, taking selfies. One student slipped and fell into the lake, and the rest of the group went in to save her. One student survived, and five drowned. |
| 18 September 2016 |  Kenya | 1 | Animal | A 66-year-old Italian tourist was having breakfast with his wife in a tent at the Swara Camp in Kulalu ranch. He saw elephants and approached them closely. While taking a selfie, he was charged by an elephant, and sustained serious injuries to his leg and died at the camp. |
| 1 October 2016 | Nepal | 1 | Fall | A 19-year-old man was taking a selfie when he slipped off a cliff and fell into Dordi stream in Lamjung district. His body was not immediately recovered. |
| 1 October 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | Two teenagers from Hyderabad were taking selfies in a quarry recently filled with rainwater. They went too deep and drowned. |
| 8 October 2016 |  Oman | 2 | Drowned | Two Sri Lankan girls were visiting Ain Garziz with their families. While at a picnic, they were taking selfies near a deep spring. One girl slipped into the spring and grabbed the hand of the other. She was unable to pull her companion out, and was dragged down into the water where both of them drowned. |
| 9 October 2016 | India | 1 | Fall | A 25-year-old man fell to his death while taking a selfie with his friends at Lion’s Point Valley near Lonavla. He slipped and fell 200 feet (61 m) into a gorge. |
| 9 October 2016 |  Sri Lanka | 1 | Transport | A Chinese woman fell from a moving train while taking a selfie and later died from her injuries. |
| 11 October 2016 | India | 1 | Drowned | A student drowned in the Jaldhaka River at Bindu village, Kalimpong subdivision in West Bengal. The body was retrieved four days later. |
| 12 October 2016 | India | 1 | Drowned | A 25-year-old engineer fell into a river and drowned in Gajapati, Odisha, while taking a selfie. |
| 18 October 2016 | Russia | 1 | Fall | A 12-year-old schoolgirl climbed over a balcony on the 17th floor of a building and fell while taking a selfie. |
| 11 November 2016 | India | 2 | Drowned | Two students drowned while taking selfies; they were swept away by currents in the Nagarjuna Sagar canal. |
| 1 January 2017 | India | 1 | Transport | A 21-year-old student died when he was hit by a speeding train while trying to take a selfie in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. |
| 4 January 2017 | Pakistan | 1 | Drowned | In Sukkur, Asif Jamil fell into the Indus River and drowned as he tried to capture his selfie at the Lansdowne Bridge Rohri. |
| 6 January 2017 | Croatia | 1 | Electrocution | In Rijeka, two men climbed onto a container on a train where they wanted to take a selfie. A 20-year-old was killed and his 19-year-old friend was in serious condition, with second and third degree burns on more than 70 percent of his body as a result of an electric shock of 25,000 volts. |
| 13 January 2017 | India | 1 | Drowned | Ashana Bhandari, fell into the Alaknanda River while she was trying to take a selfie near Koteshwar temple in Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand. |
| 14 January 2017 | India | 1 | Transport | A second-year college student died while taking a selfie in front of a running train on a railway track in Chandrakona Road, Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal. He was immediately hit by the speeding train and died instantly. |
| 14 January 2017 | India | 2 | Transport | Two teenagers were crushed under a train while posing between two railway tracks at Anand Vihar, East Delhi. They had decided to go to the railway lines to take “daring selfies” for their social media profiles. |
| 25 January 2017 | India | 1 | Transport | A 22-year-old man died while attempting to take a selfie on the railway tracks near Dhuri Lines, Ludhiana, Punjab. A passenger train hit him while he was taking selfies. |
| 5 February 2017 | India | 1 | Fall | A 22-year-old college student died after falling into a 160 feet (49 m) ravine while taking a selfie near Kolukhet on Dehradun-Mussoorie road in Uttarakhand. |
| 9 February 2017 |  New Zealand | 1 | Drowned | Four women were taking selfies on a rock in a river, ignoring a warning siren signaling a dam was about to be opened. One of the women, a 21-year-old university student, was swept to her death by the dam surge. |
| 25 March 2017 | United States | 1 | Drowned | A 14-year-old girl was standing on a log with friends at a beach in Bandon, Oregon, to pose for photos, possibly including selfies. She fell off and was fatally pinned underwater by the log due to the receding tide. According to the girl’s mother, when this occurred it was not a selfie; rather her picture was being taken by a friend. |
| 25 March 2017 | Mexico | 2 | Transport | In Chínipas de Almada, Chihuahua, two females aged 17 and 18 went to see horse races at a track adjacent to an airport runway. They climbed onto the roof of a truck or a van to take selfies, failing to notice an aircraft approaching the airfield to land. The aircraft’s wing hit and fatally injured both women. This would later earn them a Darwin Award. |
| 13 April 2017 | India | 5 | Transport | Taraknath Makal was travelling by train with four friends – Sumit Kumar, Sanjiv Polley, Kajal Saha and Chandan Polley – all aged between 25 and 30 years – when he reportedly leaned out of the door to take a selfie. However, he lost his footing and fell off the train. Makal’s companions jumped out to save him, but ended up getting mowed down by another train coming from the opposite direction. Makal’s friends died on the spot while Makal died in hospital. The incident occurred between Liluah and Belur stations, in the vicinity of Howrah. |
| 30 April 2017 |  Germany | 1 | Transport | A Scotsman was knocked down and killed after trying to take a selfie on a motorway. He was with two friends when he was hit by a car on the A24 Autobahn in Gudow, near Hamburg. Witnesses reported seeing the three men taking “cell phone pictures of themselves”. |
| 8 May 2017 | India | 1 | Drowned | A 21-year-old student slipped from a rock and drowned near Bandra Fort in Bandra, Mumbai after trying to take a selfie with her mother and sister. |
| 24 May 2017 | India | 2 | Drowned | Two adults, 21 and 22 years old from Hooghly district, drowned in a fish pond while taking a selfie. They were taking selfies in waist-deep water when the duo slipped from the bank and went underwater. Later, divers from Kolkata recovered both the bodies from the pond. |
| 30 May 2017 | India | 1 | Transport | At Alwal Railway station near Secunderabad, a man died while another lost his hand when the two were run over by a moving train while taking selfies. |
| 7 June 2017 | India | 0 | Animal | A man in Dhenkanal district was seriously injured by a wild elephant when he tried to take a selfie with the animal. |
| 11 June 2017 | Sri Lanka | 2 | Transport | Two brothers, aged 25 and 12, were killed when they were hit by a train while they were taking a selfie standing on the rail track. They were standing on the coastal train track between Bambalapitiya and Kollupitiya stations attempting to take a selfie when they were hit by an Aluthgama-bound express train from Maradana to Galle. |
| 11 June 2017 | Russia | 3 | Transport | Four children aged 10 to 13 were hit by a train while trying to take a selfie on a railway line in Nadezhdinsky District of Primorsky Krai, 43 km northwest of Vladivostok. Three were killed and one survived with injuries. |
| 13 June 2017 | Sri Lanka | 1 | Transport | A 24-year-old groom was killed and his bride seriously injured when the newly-wed couple tried to take a selfie on the railway track at Kahawa, in the Southern Province. According to eyewitnesses, the couple had ignored warning signals given by the people in the area saying that the train was coming. |
| 13 June 2017 | Russia | 1 | Electrocution | A 15-year-old boy was killed when he tried to climb onto a high-voltage wire to take a selfie in Perm Krai. |
| 16 June 2017 | Russia | 1 | Electrocution | A 17-year-old boy was killed when he took a selfie near a high-voltage electric cable in Novosibirsk Oblast. |
| 17 June 2017 | Russia | 1 | Electrocution | A 14-year-old girl was electrocuted when taking a selfie on a railway bridge in Moscow Oblast when her head accidentally touched the overhead wires. |
| 22 June 2017 |  United Kingdom | 1 | Fall | A 23-year-old South Korean woman fell from Seaford Head while jumping in the air to pose for a photo. |
| 27 June 2017 | India | 1 | Drowned | A 17-year-old girl drowned in Mumbai while taking selfies with her friends. She was swept away by a strong wave. |
| 1 July 2017 |  Nigeria | 2 | Drowned | Four undergraduate students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, were taking selfies in a canoe while boating on a campus pond when the canoe capsized. Two students who could swim made it to safety, while two others drowned. |
| 10 July 2017 | India | 8 | Drowned | A boat capsized in Vena reservoir near Nagpur while its passengers were taking selfies and broadcasting on Facebook live. |
| 16 July 2017 | India | 0 | Fire | 48 people were injured when standing too close to a burning bakery in Chennai to take selfies. They repeatedly ignored warnings advising them to move away from the blaze. |
| 25 July 2017 | India | 1 | Animal | A 30-year-old man snuck into the Bannerghatta National Park near Bangalore with friends to take selfies with an elephant that later trampled him to death. |
| 26 July 2017 |  Hungary | 0 | Fall | A girl fell off a bridge in Budapest while taking selfies and suffered serious injuries. |
| 26 July 2017 | India | 1 | Drowned | An 18-year-old man was swept into the sea and drowned while he was taking a selfie at a beach in Mumbai during high tide. |
| 11 August 2017 | India | 0 | Electrocution | A 17-year-old boy climbed on top of a train in Ambarnath to take a selfie but came into contact with a live wire, suffering severe injuries from the resulting electric shock. |
| 26 August 2017 | India | 1 | Electrocution | A 17-year-old boy attempted to take a selfie on top of a train carriage in Tambaram railway station. He touched a live wire, suffered severe burns from electric shock, and died four days later. |
| 2 September 2017 | India | 1 | Animal | A youth in Rourkela, Odisha, was trampled to death by a wild elephant while trying to take a selfie with the animal. |
| 12 September 2017 | United Kingdom | 1 | Transport | A 41-year-old woman from New Zealand who took a selfie as she rode her bike died after she fell off shortly afterwards, following a night out to celebrate her mother’s birthday in London. The graphic designer and mother of two was with her mother when they rode home from the pub. The 41-year-old had drunk two cocktails and four glasses of wine, and was not wearing a helmet. She had allegedly been riding one-handed when she tumbled to the ground, suffering fatal head injuries. |
| 16 September 2017 |  Malaysia | 1 | Fall | A 20-year-old man believed to be taking a selfie died after he fell from the 16th floor of a resort hotel in Genting Highlands, Pahang. It is speculated that he had climbed a wall on the hotel’s car park to take photographs when he slipped and fell. |
| 12 November 2017 | United Kingdom | 1 | Fall | A 20-year-old woman from New Zealand died after she allegedly attempted to take a selfie near a second-storey window in London. She suffered a serious brain injury as a result of the fall, and died two days later. |
| 25 December 2017 | Mexico | 1 | Fall | A 20-year-old woman died during a selfie session in the Malpaso Dam in Aguascalientes. Witnesses said she accessed a restricted zone to take the selfie before slipping and falling about 50 feet (15 m), dying from severe cranioencephalic trauma. |
| 8 January 2018 | Croatia | 1 | Electrocution | In Zagreb, a 14-year-old boy climbed onto the roof of a train cargo wagon where he wanted to take a selfie. He was electrocuted and his body “burned like a torch.” Firefighters were unable to take action until the train’s power was turned off. |
| 11 January 2018 |  Colombia | 1 | Fall | In Gámbita, Santander, a 19-year-old girl fell to her death while trying to take a selfie at “Manto de la Virgen” falls. |
| 24 January 2018 | India | 0 | Transport | A 22-year-old man was struck from behind by a train in Hyderabad while recording a selfie video immediately adjacent to the Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System line near Borabanda railway station. The video he filmed captured the entire incident, and showed him ignoring warnings from nearby staff and the train’s horn, then being knocked down by the train, sustaining head injuries in the accident. After recovering from his injuries, he attended court, and was fined 500 rupees for trespassing. |
| 9 February 2018 |  Thailand | 1 | Transport | A 24-year-old woman died when a train hit her while attempting to take a photo with an outgoing train in the background near Samsen train station in Bangkok‘s Phaya Thai District. A man, believed to be a colleague of the victim, was knocked unconscious by the train, suffering a head injury and a broken arm. |
| 11 March 2018 | United States | 5 | Drowned | Five passengers aboard a sightseeing helicopter with doors off drowned after a passenger allegedly tried to take a ‘shoe selfie’, leading to the passenger’s safety tether getting caught in the emergency fuel shutoff lever. A shoe selfie is when the person’s shoes can be seen while looking out of the open doorway of a helicopter. The helicopter’s pilot survived the splashdown in the East River, and managed to climb out of the helicopter and call for help, but rescue arrived too late to save the passengers. |
| 20 April 2018 |  Greece | 1 | Fall | In Keratsini, a 16-year-old boy died after he fell from a height of about 200 feet (61 m) after climbing on a rock to take a selfie at a park. |
| 22 April 2018 | Brazil | 0 | Fall | In Castelo do Piauí, a 22-year-old woman and two girls aged 16 and 15 fell from a height of about 30 feet (9.1 m) while taking a selfie on a bridge when the platform on the side of the bridge collapsed. They suffered fractures. |
| 30 April 2018 | Brazil | 1 | Fall | At Corumbá Lake in Caldas Novas, a 34-year-old man drowned after falling off a platform in an attempt to take a selfie. |
| 2 May 2018 | India | 1 | Animal | In Nabarangpur, Odisha, a man tried to take a selfie with a wounded bear and was mauled to death. |
| 11 June 2018 | Indonesia | 1 | Fall | A 46-year-old Chinese tourist died after falling into the sea while taking a selfie on a cliff at Devil’s Tears on Nusa Lembongan, off the coast of Bali. |
| 12 June 2018 | Portugal | 2 | Fall | On the Praia dos Pescadores, Ericeira, an Australian couple fell to their deaths when they tried to take a selfie on a 30-meter-high (98 ft) wall. |
| 3 July 2018 |  France | 1 | Fall | Chinese billionaire Wang Jian, co-founder of HNA Group, died in a tragic accident after falling from a wall while attempting to take a photograph in Provence, France, on July 3, 2018 |
| 10 July 2018 |  French Polynesia | 1 | Fall | A 15-year-old girl fell to her death while taking a selfie near a waterfall. |
| 22 July 2018 | Australia | 1 | Fall | A 19-year-old American man fell to his death at Cape Solander in Kurnell near Sydney, Australia. |
| 5 September 2018 | United States | 1 | Fall | An Israeli teen fell to his death while trying to take a selfie at Yosemite National Park. |
| 19 September 2018 | United States | 1 | Fall | A woman fell to her death while taking selfies on the edge of a 200-foot cliff over Lake Superior at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. |
| 12 October 2018 |  Panama | 1 | Fall | A Portuguese woman fell to her death while taking a selfie on the 27th floor balcony of a residential building. |
| 25 October 2018 | United States | 2 | Fall | An Indian couple fell to their deaths from Taft Point at Yosemite National Park. |
| 12 November 2018 | Sri Lanka | 1 | Fall | A German tourist died after stumbling off a cliff while taking a photo of herself. The 35-year-old woman was taking pictures with her friend when she fell off the World’s End, a sheer cliff about 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) high. The Sri Lankan army and volunteers recovered the body after a six-hour search involving air support and climbing. |
| 4 January 2019 |  Ireland | 1 | Fall | A young Indian man died after falling off the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, while taking a photo of himself. |
| 10 January 2019 | Colombia | 1 | Fall | A 32-year-old man died after fall down in a waterfall in Sucre, Cauca, while he attempted to take a photo of himself. |
| 9 March 2019 | United States | 0 | Animal | A woman was mauled by a jaguar in Arizona after entering a zoo enclosure to take a selfie. She received non-life-threatening injuries, including a large gash on her arm.Note: Although widely reported as a selfie incident, the victim claimed in a later CBS News interview that she was not taking a selfie, and did not enter the zoo enclosure—she only reached across a below-waist-height concrete planter in front of a much higher fenced enclosure—misleadingly termed “climbing” or “crossing” a barrier. |
| April 2019 |  Uganda | 1 | Drowned | A person visiting Kalagala Falls leaned back to take a selfie, slipped on the wet ground, fell, and drowned. |
| 24 April 2019 | Germany | 2 | Drowned | A 21-year-old man was swimming in the Gumpen waterfall pool. When the man was unable to free himself from the waterfall swirl, his friend of the same age jumped in to help him out of the 4–6 °C water. Both drowned. |
| 4 July 2019 | Spain | 2 | Fall | Two Englishmen aged 20 and 25 died while reportedly taking a selfie while on holiday at Punta Prima Beach, near the town of Torrevieja. |
| 14 July 2019 | Italy | 1 | Fall | A 22-year-old man died after falling from a cliff with a waterfall. |
| 15 July 2019 | Pakistan | 1 | Fall | A college student fell into the Kabul River in Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while taking a selfie. |
| 16 July 2019 | Pakistan | 2 | Drowned | A 17-year-old girl slipped while taking a selfie and fell into a river. Her father jumped into the river in an attempt to rescue her, but was also swept away by the flowing water. |
| 17 August 2019 | Australia | 1 | Fall | A 27-year-old woman died after falling from a cliff at Diamond Bay Reserve in Vaucluse, Sydney. |
| 3 September 2019 | India | 1 | Fall | A woman fell at least 200 feet (61 m) to her death while allegedly taking a selfie on her way to a temple on a hilltop in Pavagadh hill station, Gujarat. |
| 7 October 2019 | India | 4 | Fall | Wedding guests fell from a dam, four drowned. |
| 14 November 2019 | Thailand | 1 | Fall | A 33-year-old died when they were on a waterfall and attempted to take a selfie when they slipped and fell. |
| 8 January 2020 | Colombia | 1 | Fall | A 29-year-old woman died after falling 10m down in a waterfall in Sucre, Cauca. According to an eyewitness, she was attempting to take a selfie, ignoring written warnings. |
| 12 January 2020 | Australia | 1 | Fall | A 21-year-old Englishwoman fell from a 98-foot-high cliff in Diamond Bay Reserve in Sydney. The woman, accompanied by seven friends, climbed a fence to sit on the edge of the cliff and take selfies. |
| 30 April 2020 | Turkey | 1 | Fall | A 31-year-old Kazakhstani fell from a 115-foot-high cliff trying to take a selfie with a waterfall in Duden Park, Antalya, to celebrate the lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown. |
| 14 May 2020 |  Malta | 1 | Fall | A 15-year-old Italian girl who was on vacation took a selfie on a balcony and accidentally fell four storeys to her death. |
| 12 December 2020 | Australia | 1 | Fall | A 38-year-old woman fell about 260 feet (79 m) and died at a popular tourist photo spot in The Grampians in Victoria. According to authorities, she jumped over a safety barrier and tripped off the cliff edge. |
| 12 January 2021 |  Slovenia | 1 | Transport | An accident in Maribor occurred when two minors were taking selfies in front of an oncoming train between two tracks. One was killed and the other was hospitalized from shock. Both were photographed between the tracks next to the railway platform in front of a train coming from the direction of Ljubljana at high speed. |
| 16 May 2021 | Indonesia | 9 | Drowned | A boat overloaded with 20 people in a reservoir in Central Java capsized when the passengers all suddenly moved to one side of the vessel, which was helmed by a 13-year-old, to take a group selfie. Nine of the passengers drowned, including two children. |
| 10 July 2021 | Hong Kong | 1 | Fall | 32-year-old influencer Sofia Cheung died after slipping and falling about 15 feet (4.6 m) in the Ha Pak Lai nature park, while she was taking a selfie with friends at the edge of a waterfall. Her Instagram account featured photos of her outdoor adventures, including scaling cliffs and mountaintops. |
| 11 July 2021 | India | 11 | Electrocution | Eleven people died in Rajasthan after being struck by lightning near a watchtower at the Amer Fort. According to police, some of the victims were taking selfies near the tower. |
| 28 July 2021 | Italy | 1 | Fall | 22-year-old Danish YouTuber Albert Dyrlund died after falling about 660 feet (200 m) from Forcella di Pana while he was recording for his channel. |
| 6 August 2021 | Hungary | 1 | Fall | A 19-year-old Dutchman died after falling from the Liberty Bridge in Budapest. It was reported that he climbed the bridge to take a selfie. |
| 24 January 2022 | United States | 1 | Fall | A hiker in Arizona slipped and fell approximately 700 feet (210 meters) to his death while trying to take a photo in Lost Dutchman State Park near the Superstition Mountains. |
| 28 August 2022 | India | 6 | Drowned | Six members of the same family drowned at Ramdaha Falls in Chhattisgarh. Two teenage sisters attempted to take a selfie but slipped into the water.[236] Four other relatives tried to save them but they all drowned.[237] |
| 10 November 2022 | United States | 1 | Fall | A man filming himself on the back of a semi-trailer truck was killed when the driver, unaware of the man on his trailer, drove under an underpass. |
| 23 November 2022 | Italy | 1 | Drowned | A woman was hit by a wave on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, while she was trying to take pictures. The wave tossed her to the ground, where she hit her head against the rocks. |
| 26 December 2022 |  Argentina | 1 | Fall | A woman fell approximately 330 feet (100 m) from a cliff in Cañón del Atuel, Mendoza, while attempting to take a selfie. |
| 27 December 2022 | Thailand | 1 | Fall | A 45-year-old New Zealand tourist slipped and fell about 30 feet (9.1 m) to his death while taking a selfie from an opened carriage door on the Thai-Burma railway. |
| 23 April 2023 | India | 1 | Decapitated | As he attempted to take a selfie on a helipad, Jitendra Kumar Saini, the financial controller of the Uttarakhand State Civil Aviation development authority was killed by a helicopter rotor blade. |
| 15 February 2024 | India | 1 | Animal | A 38-year-old man went over a 12-foot fence to enter the lion enclosure at a zoo in Tirupati in order to take a selfie. He entered the enclosure close to the lions who immediately and fatally attacked him. |
| 9 April 2024 |  Georgia | 1 | Fall | A 39-year-old woman climbed over a barrier at a viewing point in Abkhazia to take a selfie, stumbled and fell more than 170 feet (52 m) to her death. |
| 17 April 2024 | United Kingdom | 2 | Drowned | Two male students aged 22 and 26 were taking selfies near Blair Atholl, Scotland, but slipped and were swept away by the river at Linn of Tummel |
| 20 May 2024 | United States | 1 | Firearm | A 17-year-old rapper accidentally shot himself while filming a video on Instagram after he pointed a gun at his head and pulled the trigger. |
| 4 June 2024 | Mexico | 1 | Transport | While taking a selfie too close to the tracks, a woman was struck and killed by the newly-reactivated Canadian Pacific 2816 Empress steam locomotive, which was passing through the town of Nopala in Hidalgo, Mexico. |
| 7 June 2024 | Brazil | 0 | Transport | A cyclist standing too close to the tracks is hit by a train while taking selfies with her friends near Uberaba. |
| 7 June 2024 |  England | 1 | Transport | A driver who was taking a selfie while speeding near Roudham, Norfolk crashed into a man riding a moped and killed him. |
| 7 August 2024 | Indonesia | 1 | Fall | A couple fell more than 80 feet when taking a selfie near a waterfall in Bali. The man died and the woman survived. |
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