Teenager bursts into flames after touching live wire on train roof

May 13, 2015 11:15 AM

In a bid to get the perfect selfie Anna Ursu killed herself.

A Romanian teenager Anna Ursu who was 18 years old burst into flames after she accidentally touched a live wire on the roof of a train.

What was she doing there? Anna was trying to take the 'ultimate selfie’.

Anna plus her friend went to a train station in a bid to get the unique selfie and post it on Facebook.

Unfortunately she did not achieve her goal. As she lay on top of the locomotive and raised her leg in the air, it caught an overhead cable which pushed 27, 000 volts into her body making it burst into flames.

Her friend was sent flying off the roof of the train at the train station.

The fire burnt 50 percent of her body and she later died in the hospital despite efforts by a Good Samaritan who risked his life by going to the roof of the train and extinguishing the fire on Anna’s body with his clothes.