Disturbing video shows a large group

With selfie-related fatalities hitting news headlines more and more often (officially nine so far in 2024, including, last month Czech gymnast Natalie Stichova, who fell 80m to her death in Germany) we'd hope people would be wising up to the fact that you need to be sensible when it comes to taking photographs in the great outdoors. This crowd of selfie-takers in China clearly didn’t get the memo. A group of about 20 of them got wiped out by a tidal bore which appears to have been the reason they were down at the riverbank in the first place. It’s disturbing to watch, as it could have resulted in multiple deaths, but thankfully that doesn’t appear to be the case. A commenter on the video, which was posted to X a few days go, has translated the text, revealing that it says, “When the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, China was in high tide, two fathers protected their children and were finally rescued safely.” The same commenter later clarified that no one died in the in

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