He wanted to take a selfie on the banks of the Nile, fell into the river and drowned

A Saudi tourist drowned while falling on the White Nile while trying to take pictures, according to Ugandan police.

"The Saudi citizen was visiting Uganda, he drowned when he took a selfie on the White Nile and the water took him away," the spokesman said. say the local police Hellen Butoto. The accident occurred Saturday but "the body was found" Tuesday, 10 kilometers away, he told the news agency AFP.

The man visited with friends the Kalagala waterfalls in central Uganda, a favorite place for canoeists for their rapids during the accident.

"The tourist leaned over to take a picture and he slipped because the surface is wet"Butoto added.

According to a study conducted in 2018 by the All India Medical Sciences Institute, 259 people died when selfies were taken in the last six years.