NEW DELHI, Feb 24 (NNN-PTI) – Two Indian youths in their early 20s, died in the Indian capital city of New Delhi, while shooting their own videos with mobile phones on railway tracks, after a train ran over them.
The accident occured on Wednesday near Kanti Nagar flyover in Shahdara, East Delhi, said a local police today.
The victims were identified as Vansh Sharma (23), a third-year Bachelor of Technology (BTech) student, and Monu alias Varun (20), a student of Delhi University, who worked part-time as a salesman.
“After ascertaining their identity, we learnt that the duo used to often make their personal videos on railway tracks with trains moving in the background. Perhaps, on the fateful day they didn’t realise that they were standing on the same railway track, on which a fast-moving train was approaching. And the train suddenly ran over them,” said the local police, over the phone.
Their body parts and mobile phones were recovered from the railway tracks, he added. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
The habit of shooting short films and then sharing them on various social platforms has become quite a trend among Indians, particularly youths and women. People tend to get attracted towards this habit, in a bid to make quick bucks by getting maximum number of Views and Likes on various social media platforms.
In a bid to maximise their incomes from social media platforms, some people even put their lives to risk, by filming themselves inside fast-flowing rivers, by the side of dams, in front of trains, or on national highways, amidst fast moving vehicular traffic.– NNN-PTI
