Three young people have died in the town of Mirzapur, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, trying to get a selfie on the railroad tracks when a train passed, reported Efe Police .
The Superintendent of Police Mirzapur, Arvind Sen, told Efe that two of the young, of which no details were killed yesterday when they tried to be photographed on the train tracks with locomotive and the third was struck and killed as he watched the scene.
Sen could not say how gained access to the tracks.
"I can only say that the accident is under investigation," the police official Mirzapur.
Stations, installations and routes of the railway system are often easily accessible and have little surveillance in India which generates a high annual number of accidents.
Indian rail network is 65,000 kilometers, the fourth by length in the world, behind the United States, Russia and China, has 1.3 million employees and 12,500 trains daily and transports some 23 million passengers.
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