{"id":13889,"date":"2016-05-04T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13889"},"modified":"2016-05-04T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:34:34","slug":"tragic-selfie-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/04\/tragic-selfie-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Selfie Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old Amandeep Singh, shot himself while home alone with his fathers\u2019 handgun, whilst using a selfie stick.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing gun-shots, neighbours called the police<\/p>\n<p>Manoj Kumar, chief in command, found that the gun was kept in Singh\u2019s fathers\u2019 wardrobe and the safety was not on.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a hospital in Ludhiana, Punjab where he passed away on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>News of his death has caused shockwaves around India, with the city of Mumbai setting up no selfie zones at popular but hazardous locations after a number of accidents have claimed lives.<\/p>\n<p>India leads in the number of deaths due to selfies. Another incident occurred in April when a man tried to take a selfie with a chained Elephant in a festival in Kerala. Instead, he was attacked by the Elephant.<\/p>\n<p>International action has also been taken; Russia has released a brochure that relays the message that \u201cselfies with weapons can kill you\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old Amandeep Singh, shot himself while home alone with his fathers\u2019 handgun, whilst using a selfie stick. After hearing gun-shots, neighbours called the police Manoj Kumar, chief in command, found that the gun was kept in Singh\u2019s fathers\u2019 wardrobe and the safety was not on. He was taken to a hospital in Ludhiana, Punjab where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}