Craze for selfie cost a youth dear as a train crushed him when he was trying to take a selfie on a railway track in Sambalpur district on Sunday evening.
The deceased was identified as Prabadyut Tiwana (24) of Tiwari Gali under the Khetrajpur police station in the district.
As per eyewitness accounts, the youth was clicking selfie standing on the railway track near Atharahazaar under the Burla police station in the district. Though the level crossing was closed, he took his motorcycle and parked it on the track.
In the meantime, a freight train hit him from behind resulting in his death on the spot. The Burla police have recovered the body for postmortem and registered an unnatural death case into the incident.