Unit5-Part2-Reading

Our selfie is dangerous.

In 2015, about 30 people lost their lives in selfie accidents.

In January, three college students in India died

while they were taking selfies on the railway tracks.

They wanted to take a selfie close to an approaching train,

but this cost them their lives.

The train ran over them before they jumped off the track.

In the same month, a 21 -year -old South African woman

died when she fell from a cliff in Johannesburg.

She was standing on a rock near the edge of the cliff

while her boyfriend was setting up his tripod to take a selfie with her.

In March, seven Indian teenagers were hanging out at a lake.

When they stood up in their rowboat to pose for a selfie,

the boat tipped over.

They all drowned.

In May, an 18 -year -old Romanian girl

fell off the top of a fast train and died.

She was also taking selfies.

Later that month in the USA, the pilot of a small plane

and one of his passengers were taking selfies in the pilot cabin.

The pilot lost control of the plane, and it crashed into the mountains.

In August, while a 32 -year -old man was taking a selfie

at a bull running festival in Spain, an angry bull knocked him down

and he died of head injury.

In September, a 66 -year -old Japanese tourist slipped down the stairs

at the Taj Mahal and died.

He was taking a selfie of himself and his friend.

His friend fell with him, but he just had a broken leg after the fall.

The last selfie death of the year happened when a 19 -year -old student

fell from the top of a tall building in Manila, the Philippines.

She was taking a selfie on the wall around the roof.

Her friend said to the police,

we took many selfies together, but she decided to take one more selfie

on a higher spot, so she climbed up.

All of these deaths and many more selfie accidents occurred

when people tried to take selfies in dangerous places.