Two teenagers are in a serious condition
after they were electrocuted in their bid to take a selfie on top of a train.
Olesya Belmasova and
Anastasiya Kirillova, both 16, went to a train station in the city of
Taganrog in southern Russia.
They tried to climb on the
tank car of an old freight train that was standing at the platform – but didn’t
realise it was still in use and on a live track.
The pair accidentally
touched the track and were zapped with thousands of volts.
A horrified train worker
who witnessed the scene said one of the girls appeared to ‘explode’.
He said: ‘I was walking
towards them to ask them what they were doing when they were suddenly blasted
to the ground.
‘One was completely blackened and the other was on fire as if she
had exploded.’
The pair were taken to a
nearby children’s hospital with 70 per cent burns over their bodies and a
number of fractures.
Anastasia, who was still
able to talk, said: ‘We climbed on top of the tank car and then I heard a loud
clap. We fell off the car and onto the ground.
‘My hair was on fire and I was in so much pain.’
Both girls are said to be
in a serious condition.
A
police spokesman confirmed: ‘They wanted to take some photos from the top of
the tank car but were injured by a high-voltage electric current.’
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