Local reports, citing the police, said Olga died ‘after falling off the train when attempting to take a selfie while hanging from the train footboard between the Badulla and Hali Ela railway stations’.
Grandmother Olga Perminova, 53, was travelling on Sri Lanka’s iconic Podi Menike line when the horror accident occurred.
A tourist has been killed after leaning out of a train to take a selfie on a famous railway line and hitting a rock.
The train was heading for Ella, home to the famous Nine Arches Bridge on a line that has been called one of the world’s greatest rail experiences.
And here in the UK, two university students were found dead at the foot of a waterfall in Scotland in April last year after reportedly attempting to take a selfie at the top.
