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Tourists and camera should remember a new that has appeared. This new life-threatening hazard started in the few years and is now everywhere. It is twice as as being killed by a shark. What is this new danger? Well, it is the selfie. Yes – love 'em or hate 'em, the to take a photo of yourself in front of a world-famous or to pose and with a friend has resulted in more deaths in 2015 than shark . So far this year, 12 people have died as a of trying to take a selfie. This compares to just six deaths from shark attacks.

Selfie happen in many ways. Wikipedia.com detailed the deaths seen this . They include two Russian men who were killed while taking a selfie with a hand ; three Indian students were killed by a while taking selfies on train tracks; and an American fell to her while taking a selfie with her boyfriend on a . The death came when a Japanese tourist died falling down the at the Taj Mahal in India. There may be . A Russian government spokeswoman told reporters that in July, there were, "dozens of selfie-related deaths" in Russia .

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