College girl dies while taking selfie off a rocky beach in Mumbai
Mumbai, Jan 9: A college girl who fell into the swirling Arabian Sea while clicking a selfie off a rocky beach here on Saturday and a youth who plunged into the water to save her were both untraced, police said. The Indian Coast Guard launched an aerial search to trace out the two missing people. The 18-year-old girl, identified as Tarannum Ansari, and her two friends Anjum Khan (19) and Kasuri Khan (19) slipped while clicking a selfie with their mobile phones and fell into the swirling seawaters off the rocky beach of Bandra Bandstand. On hearing their screams for help, local youth Rajesh Walunj jumped into the rising tidal waters and managed to rescue Anjum and Kasuri and later tried to save Tarannum. However, along with Tarannum, Walunj went missing in the waters and they were not found till late Saturday evening, said BMC Disaster Control.
