According to the BBC,
a 12-year-old Russian girl, solely identified as Oksana B, fell to her
death after taking a picture of herself sitting on the railing of a
seventeenth-story balcony. She allegedly sent the photo to a friend
right before falling.
The
news organization reports Oksana’s friend noticed the picture was taken
from a “risky location” and sent it to the girl’s mother after Oksana
didn’t answer her texts, but by that time, the person who allegedly
first spotted Oksana’s body on the ground below the building had called
the police. Oksana reportedly had told her mother she was going to take a
walk when she went up to the balcony.
Police
have not confirmed Oksana was taking a selfie before she died or that
taking the picture was what caused her to lose her balance and fall to
her death, but the BBC reports the alleged photo has not yet been
released.