Saudi tourist falls, drowns in Nile while taking selfie

A Saudi tourist suffocated after he slipped and fell into the River Nile while evidently endeavoring to take a selfie, police said Tuesday. 

"The Saudi national was on a visit on Uganda. He suffocated as he was taking a selfie on the River Nile and the water cleared him away," Uganda police representative Hellen Butoto told AFP. 

"The body has been recuperated by the police marine unit and taken for posthumous." 

The traveler was with a gathering of companions visiting Kalagala Falls in focal Uganda, a prominent detect whose furious rapids are well known among kayakers, when the mishap occurred on Saturday. 

"The tourist slipped on the grounds that the surface is wet and he had inclined in reverse to take a selfie of quick running water out of sight," said Butoto. 

She said his body was recuperated exactly 10 kilometers (six miles) away on Tuesday. 

An investigation by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 2018 found there had been 259 selfie passings around the globe over the past six years. 

The most elevated toll was in India, trailed by Russia, United States and Pakistan.