Six members of the same family drowned in a waterfall in Chhattisgarh, India, in an accident involving selfies. The case was registered on Sunday (28).
According to police, the two sisters, one 14 and the other 22, started to choke while trying to take a selfie at Ramdaha waterfall.
They were in a family group of 15 people. In total, five relatives entered the water and formed a “human cordon” to try to save Shraddha and Shweta Singh.
According to the Times of India, the girls’ three brothers, aged 18, 22 and 26; His 24-year-old cousin and his wife of 22, the only survivors, went into the water to try to save the girls.
According to the newspaper, the young survivor is being hospitalized in serious condition. The park was pulled out of the water by rescuers. Crews were called by other eyewitnesses who were at the scene.
The bodies of three of the family members were found on Sunday, and the bodies of the other three were found on Monday (30).
According to police, signs prohibiting bathing at the waterfall have already been placed in the city’s popular picnic spot, where similar deaths were recorded earlier this year.
source: Noticias