In another selfie death, an IIT Kharagpur professor lost his life on Sunday. A professor of Oceanology department of the premiere institution, 40-year-old Joydeep Bhattacharya, fell into an abandoned quarry while trying to take a selfie with his four-year-old son Udan, at Gholgoria, near the institute. Although his son could be rescued, Bhattacharya died,” Ghosh said. A resident of Asansol, Bhattacharya had joined IIT Kharagpur in 2013. He had purchased a house at Gholgoria where he had come on Sunday with his son and two-year-old daughter Sirin.

Source: dna August 27, 2017 16:30 UTC