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Dave Golder

Disturbing video shows a large group of Chinese selfie-takers swept up by a giant tidal bore

Crowd watching tidal bore of Qiantang River.

With selfie-related fatalities hitting news headlines more and more often (officially nine so far in 2024,  including, last month Czech gymnast Natalie Stichova, who fell 80m to her death in Germany) we'd hope people would be wising up to the fact that you need to be sensible when it comes to taking photographs in the great outdoors.

This crowd of selfie-takers in China clearly didn’t get the memo. A group of about 20 of them got wiped out by a tidal bore which appears to have been the reason they were down at the riverbank in the first place. 

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