Even as hundreds in Kolkata did their best to rescue victims after the flyover’s collapse, some youngsters displayed insensitivity by clicking selfies with the injured.
Some teenagers as well as young men were perched on a broken pillar of the Vivekananda Road flyover, taking pictures with their mobiles.
A few youngsters forced themselves into a waiting ambulance and started clicking selfies with an injured man in Posta area on Thursday.
They appeared to be oblivious to the pain and suffering of the seriously injured man who was pulled out of the rubble by the policemen and was waiting to be rushed to hospital.
Sadly, none of the young men cared to lend a helping hand in the rescue operations and police had to drag them out of the ambulance. Several ambulances were held up as large groups of youngsters almost laid siege to the vehicles in a desperate bid to click snaps with the injured.
They positioned themselves in a way so that they could take selfies with the wounded many dazed and in pain and some dying.
The large crowd of onlookers choked the crucial Rabindra Sarani where a taxi and a Tata Sumo vehicle crushed under the flyover were kept. Some selfie-seekers positioned themselves on a crane brought to the site to clear the rubble.
A few were seen virtually competing with each other in clicking gory videos of the destruction.
“Ami peye gechi, ami peye gechi (I have got it, I have got it),” shouted a teenager, proudly showing his video to his friends.
A common thread in their operations was to ensure their faces were seen in the videos.
Quickly would they post “their successes” on Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp to send out a message to friends that they were at the spot where the flyover crumbled killing 24 people and leaving many badly injured