Mohammad Ayub was roasted to death when he came in touch with a high-tension wire while trying to click a selfie on a goods train near Nizamuddin Railway Station on Saturday evening
A selfie atop a goods train is all that 18-year-old Mohammad Ayub has left for his parents to remember. A lover of selfies, Ayub met his tragic end doing just what his father had tried to dissuade him from. Jamaluddin Khan, Ayub's father, said that he had turned down his son's request to buy a phone with a selfie camera, twice this month. He says he was reluctant to buy him one after hearing so much about selfie-related accidents.
"Twice I tried to convince him that we will buy him such a phone later. He was angry, but I decided to face the flak rather than take a chance. Finally, what I feared happened. The incident has left the family in shock. His mother has not eaten or said anything since she came to know about his death," said Khan, who manufactures heaters.
A first-year student of Jamia Milia Islamia University, Ayub was roasted to death when he came in touch with a high-tension wire while trying to click a selfie on a goods train near Nizamuddin Railway Station on Saturday evening.
According to the police, the incident took place around 7 pm when the deceased, a resident of Old Delhi's Lal Kuan area, after attending his aunt's wedding, went near the railway tracks with his friends and cousins. Ayub and his friends saw a stationary goods train and got over the petrol tankers, police said.
When they got atop the train, Ayub came in touch with a high-tension wire and was charred to death. "As his friends and cousins shouted to alert him, he stood up, touched it with his head and with a loud sound, fell off the train. Others who were on the spot were horrified as Ayub was completely burnt and his head was charred. His cousins called up the police and his relatives and they rushed him to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead," said Dawood Khan, a 12th standard student and Ayub's younger brother.
Ayub's body was sent for post-mortem and was handed over to the family on Sunday. He is survived by his parents, a younger brother and an 11-year-old sister.
The incident has also raised concerns over easy access to sensitive and accident-prone areas of the railways. As stated by family members, the container which Ayub climbed upon contained thousands of litres of petrol.
Increasing selfie-related deaths had made many states to declare many areas as no-selfie zones. In January 2016, the Mumbai police identified more than a dozen no-selfie zones after three girls were swept out into the Arabian Sea while taking selfies near the sea in the Bandra area. In 2015, during the Kumbh Mela many no-selfie zones were declared.
DEATH BY SELFIE
- Jan 2017: Two teenagers were crushed under a train while posing between tracks at Anand Vihar in east Delhi.
- Oct 2016: A teenage girl was scalped after she leaned too close to the machinery on a Ferris wheel while reportedly trying to take a selfie in Baghpat district, UP.
- Nov 2015: One person died and another critically injured in Nadia district, West Bengal, after they were run over by a train while taking selfies.
- Sep 2015: A Japanese tourist, trying to take a selfie, fell down from a staircase at the Taj Mahal suffering fatal head injuries.
- Jan 2015: Three college students lost their lives while attempting to take a selfie on a railway track in Mathura, near Kosikala.
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