Muhammad Usman, a resident of Shahidra, became the first causality of selfie craze in 2016.

The unfortunate incident took place in Kot Abdul Malik.

According to the police, Usman was making a selfie with his friend while pointing the loaded gun towards his chest.

While posing for the camera, he accidentally pulled the trigger of his gun. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he breathed his last.

The victim, however, was able to record his statement before police, blaming himself for the incident.

Jamshaid Khan, 22, an employee of the railways department, tried to take the photograph on his phone while standing on the tracks in Rawalpindi.

Police had opened fire and injured two schoolboys who were taking pictures with a toy pistol on Faisalabad's Susan road.

The boys, identified as Farhan, 15, and Fahad,14, were reportedly taking pictures to post them on Facebook with a toy pistol when Faryad Husain, the station house officer (SHO) of Peoples Colony, opened fire on them without any warning.

Anna Ursu,18, and a friend went to a train station in the town of Iasi to take a "special selfie" that she intended to post on Facebook. As she lay on top of a train and stuck one of her legs in the air, an electrical field surrounding the overhead cables sent 27,000 volts zapping through her body, causing her to burst into flames.

Despite the best efforts of a passer-by to save her, the 18-year-old later died in a hospital with burns to 50 per cent of her body.

The harrowing accident happened on the young woman's dream vacation.

Xenia was a keen amateur photographer, and her big passion had been taking pictures of herself with a camera she bought at the end of 2013 after a summer job. But her life was cut short when she decided that the top of the rail bridge in Krasnogvardeysky, in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, would make a great location for one of her pictures.

Police, alerted by an anonymous call saying children had been playing on the bridge, believe the teen may have been alive for a short while after she hit the ground.

The couple's children, aged 5 and 6, witnessed the fall and were set in the care of Polish diplomats and psychologists.