Selfie Accidents Have Killed More People Than Sharks This Year

Selfie-related accidents have killed some-more people worldwide this year than shark attacks have, and they’ve killed during slightest twice as many if we embody usually “unprovoked,” reliable shark attacks.

Conde Nast Traveler reported on Sept. 16tourist who fell down a stairs during a Taj Mahalcreated an infographic

Conde Nast Traveler got a total from a Shark Attack Survivors news archivesInternational Shark Attack File during a Florida Museum of Natural History

Burgess pronounced that usually six, rather than eight, deadly shark attacks should be counted in a tally, given in one of a incidents it’s not transparent if a shark might have been “provoked,” and a other might not have even been a shark attack.

Burgess classifies one of a attacks in a SAS news repository as carrying a bag of scallopswho left during sea

Though the Conde Nast Traveler and Mashable articles don’t fact a 12 selfie-related deaths, they are listed on Wikpedia

1.fell to her death

2, 3.killed while holding a selfie

4,5,6.killed by an approaching train

7.was electrocuted

8.was also electrocuted

9.shot herself in a head

10.died descending from a bridge

11.fatally shot himself

12.died descending down a stairs

There is, however, some justification that there might be other selfie-related deaths that we don’t know about given they didn’t make general headlines. Yelena Alexeyeva, an help to a Russian interior minister, told a Agency France-Presse in July

According to Burgess, a media’s concentration on shark attacks gives a open a mangled thought of how dangerous they unequivocally are, given each time a shark conflict happens, it’s a vital news story — distinct fatalities ensuing from some-more common tragedies, such as automobile accidents.

“I see it as a problem for a bargain of multitude and bargain sharks and a healthy environment,” he said. 

Burgess remarkable that either shark attacks have killed 6 or 8 people this year, or whatever a tough numbers on selfie-related deaths might be, a genuine story is that sharks should be most some-more disturbed about humans than a other approach around.

“The fact of a matter is we’re murdering between 30 and 70 million sharks a year in fisheries,” Burgess said. “The genuine invader in this attribute isn’t a shark, it’s a human.”

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