Selfies are five times more deadly than shark attacks, 明らかにする／漏らすs death （死傷者）数 熟考する／考慮する

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Selfies, which have become a 全世界の sensation in the last １０年間 or so, have remarkably killed five times more people than shark attacks.

And the death （死傷者）数 has crept up incrementally each year as smartphones become more sophisticated and selfie-sticks 増加する the 範囲 at which people can snap themselves, 誘発するing them to take bigger 危険s for the perfect 発射.

Between October 2011 and November 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies around the globe, によれば India's 定期刊行物 of Family 薬／医学 and 最初の／主要な Care, compared to just 50 people killed by sharks in the same period.

Selfish??Tourists take selfies in 前線 of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro

But statistic was published a day after a 21-year old US student,?Jordan Lindsey from?of Torrance, California, was fatally attacked by three sharks as she snorkelled in the Bahamas.

While women take the most selfies, young men, who are more 傾向がある to take 危険s, （不足などを）補う three ４半期/4分の1s of the selfie deaths - in drownings, 衝突，墜落s, 落ちるs or 狙撃 事故s.

India, with a 全住民 of more than 1.3 billion and 800 million 独房 phones, 持つ／拘留するs the 記録，記録的な／記録する for the number of people dying in the 行為／法令／行動する of photographing themselves, with 159 記録，記録的な／記録するd so far.

That is more than half of the 全世界の total - and a testament of sort s to the nation's love of group photos and its youthful 全住民.

Saudi groom Basil Albani 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a selfie with his friends during his wedding at his home in the Red Sea 訴える手段／行楽地 of Jeddah

India has seen selfie-snapping groups of 青年s die when they were 攻撃する，衝突する by a train or 溺死するing when their boat sank at the moment they were clicking the shutter.

The 状況／情勢 has become so 悲惨な that India has 始める，決める up 'no selfie' zones - 16 of them in the city of Mumbai alone.

The country （機の）カム in far ahead of Russia (16 deaths), the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs (14) and Pakistan.

In Russia, people have fallen from 橋（渡しをする）s and high-rise buildings, 発射 themselves or even died while 扱うing a land 地雷. Police 問題／発行するd a guide to 'selfies without danger' in 2015.

US-支援するd Syrian 交戦的なs take a selfie?in the village of Baghouz in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor 州

In the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, most of those 伴う／関わるd in selfie deaths fatally 発射 themselves while 捜し出すing the perfect 提起する／ポーズをとる. A number of people have fallen to their deaths at the Grand Canyon.

救助（する） services in Croatia used Twitter to ask tourists to 'stop taking stupid and dangerous selfies' after a Canadian miraculously 生き残るd a 250-foot (75-メーター) 落ちる in the Plitvice lakes 地域.

In January, Taiwanese social マスコミ celebrity Gigi Wu - known as the 'Bikini 登山者' for taking selfies on 最高の，を越す of mountain 頂点（に達する）s dressed in a bikini - died when she fell into a ravine. She was 36.

イスラム教徒 巡礼者s take a selfie at the Grand イスラム教寺院 in the 宗教上の Saudi city of メッカ, on the eve of the start of the 年次の Hajj 巡礼の旅

不適切な selfie 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs

Even when they are not 致命的な, selfies can be 極端に macabre.

In 2014, a Brazilian woman 誘発するd 激怒（する） online when she took a smiling selfie in 前線 of the 棺 of 大統領の 候補者 Eduardo Campos at his funeral.

Social マスコミ influencer Sueli Toledo also 原因（となる）d a 動かす online when she 地位，任命するd a picture on Instagram with the caption, 'My look today for the funeral of a 最高の friend.'

Selfies in places みなすd sacred or hallowed - 特に when they 栄誉（を受ける） the dead - can also raise questions.

Israeli 総理大臣 Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Israeli 副 外務大臣 Tzipi Hotovely 提起する／ポーズをとる for a selfie on 選挙 night

At the former Nazi death （軍の）野営地，陣営 of Auschwitz in Poland, visited by 2.1 million people every year, museum staff do not hesitate to 接触する people who 地位，任命する selfies みなすd to be 不適切な.

From Brazil to Vietnam and Germany, 証言，証人／目撃するs to 交通事故s have 地位，任命するd selfies at the scene of the 衝突，墜落 - 一般に seen as gauche.

More and more, selfies - even in tourist 港／避難所s - are becoming a bit of a nuisance for 地元のs.

居住（者）s of the picturesque Rue Cremieux in Paris were so 乱すd by the constant stream of selfie-snapping tourists outside their windows that they started their own Instagram account, clubcremieux, where they publish pictures of the most absurd posers outside their doors, skewering them with barbed captions.

Two tourists take a selfie in 前線 of the Teatro Degollado in Guadala jara, Jalisco 明言する／公表する, Mexico

The same thing happened in Hong Kong, where 居住（者）s of the 広大な multi-colored Quarry Bay apartment コンビナート／複合体 put up 調印するs banning photos.

In Brazil, several 青年s made a buzz on Facebook in 2017 when they 地位，任命するd smiling selfies taken の中で terrified bus 乗客s who had thrown themselves to the 床に打ち倒す during a 狙撃.

直面するing the mad frenzy of endless selfies, Vienna has 開始する，打ち上げるd a （選挙などの）運動をする for a 数字表示式の detox.

The Belvedere Museum has put up a large copy of Gustav Klimt's classic 絵 'The Kiss' 近づく the 初めの and 追加するd a 巨大（な） red hashtag, so that 訪問者s can take their selfie next to the facsimile and 現実に look at the real work of art.