Teen dies after being electrocuted taking selfie atop train in Romania

HYDEARABD, TELANGANA, 02/09/2014: Employees of Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project authorities gesture alongside a metro train during a photo call at the Uppal Metro Rail Depot in Hyderabad on Tuesday, HMR is the biggest urban infrastructure project undertaken on public-private partnership basis. Metro train services on the elevated rail, which will cover a total distance of 72 kilometers with three corridors comprising 66 stations, commence in a few days on the route from Nagole to Mettuguda, a stretch of eight kms in the first phase, according to a media release.--- PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

A teenager has died after she was electrocuted while taking selfies atop a parked train in northeast Romania.

Anna Ursu, 18, was hospitalized in the St. Spiridon Hospital in the city of Iasi on Friday with severe burns after she apparently touched a high-voltage wire above the train, which was parked in Iasi. A friend was also hospitalized in the St. Maria hospital with slight injuries, hospital spokesman Lucian Cernahonschi on Wednesday.

She was transferred to the Bucharest Burns Hospital where she died on Sunday.

The hospital’s emergency department on Wednesday it was impossible to save the girl. “Her whole body was burned,” they said.