Teen dies after being electrocuted taking selfie atop train | Inquirer Technology

Teen dies after being electrocuted taking selfie atop train

/ 06:32 PM May 13, 2015

BUCHAREST, Romania — A teenager has died after she was electrocuted while taking selfies atop a parked train in northeast Romania.

Anna Ursu, 18, was hospitalized in the St. Spiridon Hospital in the city of Iasi on Friday with severe burns after she apparently touched a high-voltage wire above the train, which was parked in Iasi. A friend was also hospitalized in the St. Maria hospital with slight injuries, hospital spokesman Lucian Cernahonschi Wednesday.

Ursu was transferred to the Bucharest Burns Hospital where she died on Sunday.

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Anisia Iliescu at the hospital’s emergency department on Wednesdaysaid it was impossible to save the girl. “Her whole body was burned,” Iliescu said.

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