In the viral video of the incident on social media, the 16-year-old could be seen walking on the railway track as the train approached.
Sarfaraz shooting photos and videos right before the incident. (Twitter)
In a tragic incident, a 16-year-old boy lost his life after being hit by a train while apparently shooting selfies and videos on a railway track near Bharatnagar railway station in Hyderabad.
He and two other friends were there to to shoot selfies for his social media account.
The teenager, a Class 9 student, was walking on the track when the train approached.
“He could not avoid being hit by the train even though his friends, who were shooting on a mobile phone, managed to escape after the train came close to them,” Nampally Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector A Srinivas told South First.
In a video of the incident going viral on social media, the boy, Mohammad Sarfaraz, can be seen with his back to the approaching train and standing dangerously close to the track.
He died on the spot after being hit by the train on Friday, 5 May.
According to Sarfaraz’s father, his son had left their house in Yousufguda around 1 pm for Friday prayers
“I had asked him to offer prayers at home, but he said that he would offer namaz in the neighbourhood mosque and left,” his father said in a video statement circulated on social media..
He added that around 2.15 pm two of Sarfaraz’s school mates and friends — Muzammil and Sohail — came to the house and informed them about the incident.
Meanwhile, the railway staff informed the police about the accident. The cops took Sarfaraz’s body to Osmania General Hospital in Afzal Gunj for the post-mortem.
“Sarfaraz was hit by an MMTS [Multi-Modal Transport System] train, which is usually two feet wider than the usual trains. This might be the reason that the boy could not escape,” inspector Srinivas said.
The police also recovered a mobile phone from the spot.
“The friends of Sarfaraz alerted Station Superintendent first and then the railway staff alerted us around 4.30 pm,” the GRP inspector added.
A case under Section 174 CrPC (police to investigate and report on suicide) was registered.
On 4 May, a three-year-old boy and two of his relatives from Hyderabad reportedly drowned in a lake at Samalapally village in Siddipet district as they were trying to click a selfie while standing on the lake bund.
As they were trying to take a selfie standing on the edge of the water, Sheik Mustafa and his uncle Shaik Khaiser accidentally slipped into the deep end of the lake.
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