In 2017, we explored the rise of the "kill-fie " — a portmanteau coined for selfies that put people at risk of severe injury and death — and efforts to quash the trend.

Our story reported that one country was a hotbed of risky selfies. Data scientists at Cornell University conducted extensive searches of online news accounts of death by selfie. Their report, "Me, Myself and My Killfie", tallied 127 selfie deaths from 2014 through 2016. More than half were in India.

Now it's not a definitive study. The news media doesn't report on every risky selfie. And India is home to the world's biggest population.

Still, India took the report quite seriously. Police in the western Indian city of Mumbai identified 16 accident-prone zones where most of the country's selfie-related deat

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