At least 127 people worldwide have died since March 2014 after posing or trying to pose for selfies, the “Me, Myself and My Killfie” paper revealed on Friday. The study also showed that men suffered over 75% of selfie fatalities even though women are more likely to take selfies.

India has lost 25 more people than every other country in the world combined to deaths caused by selfies, according to a new study.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Indraprastha Institute of Information Delhi did not try to explain what made India in particular lose 76 people to selfies over the past three years. They rather sought to explain what can make selfies turn in to so-called “killfies.”

“Clicking selfies has become a symbol of self-expression and often people portray their adventurous side by uploading crazy selfies. This has proved to be dangerous,” the study said.

The researchers took their data from credible news stories they compiled through extensive web searches. They found falls from buildings or mountains to be the most common factor in the deaths, followed by people fatally struck by trains and victims who drowned in bodies of water.

The study marked the latest one concluding that India leads the world in selfie deaths. No other country had double-digit fatalities. Mumbai police outlined 16 specific “no-selfie zones” around the country’s largest city after two people drowned in the Arabian Sea last year.

The U.S. suffered the third-most selfie casualties in the world at eight in the last three years, one fewer than second-place Pakistan. At three, America lost the most people in the world to selfies by people posing with weapons.

The researchers also broke down the fatalities by age and gender. Men died from dangerous selfies much more commonly than women, even though earlier studies showed that women were more likely to click selfies.

Victims aged between 20 and 24 years old had the most selfie deaths, at 45, out of the 127 fatalities. Victims under 20 comprised 41 of the deaths, while 17 of the victims were more than 30 years old.

The study included a picture a girl took on train tracks just before a train hit her and one a man took on a boat just before several people drowned in a lake. Selfies caused more than one person’s death at least 24 different times worldwide since March 2014, according to the study.

“By analyzing selfie deaths—in terms of group and individual deaths, it can be concluded that taking dangerous selfies not only puts the selfie-taker at a risk but also can also be hazardous to the people around them,” the study said.

 

 

source:NY DailyNews