5. Xenia Ignatyeva
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Xenia Ignatyeva, was just a month shy of her 18thbirthday, when a quest to take an impressive selfie claimed her life. The tragic teen had climbed to the top of a railway bridge in order to capture the selfie. The incident occurred in 2014 at a rail bridge in Krasnogvardeysky, near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Xenia, who was an amateur photographer with a love of capturing risky pictures of herself, thought this would be the perfect location for her next snap. Although Xenia was accompanied by a friend, she went up on the bridge alone, as she wished to capture the picture single-handedly. It is not quite known how, but at some stage up there, Xenia lost her footing and plummeted 30ft to her death. Before she fell though, the teen tried to grab a hold of an electrical cable, which electrocuted her before she hit the concrete below. Authorities were alerted by an on-looker who called to report children playing on the bridge. When they arrived, they found Xenia’s body accompanied by her friend who was paralyzed by shock, crouching beside her.
4. Andrey Retrovsky
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Andrey Retrovsky was a 17-year-old Russian teenager who fell to his death while attempting to take a selfie as he hung from the top of a nine-story building. Andrey had been using a rope to anchor himself as he leaned off the roof of the building; he is said to have been doing this so that when he took the selfie, it gave the illusion that he was falling. Quite ironically, the rope snapped and Andrey did in fact fall from the building. Despite the fact, Andrey’s nine story decent was softened by his landing in shrubbery, he died two hours later in the hospital. Andrey was no stranger to this type of drastic selfie though, in fact, the teen’s Instagram ‘drewssik’ was dedicated to selfies just like this one. Previous posts on the Instagram account had shown Andrey in countless life threatening positions, such as hanging of the sides of buildings or off of girders hundreds of feet in the air. Friends explained how they tried to warn Andrey of the danger he was putting himself in but that it did little to slow him down.
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