7 Pictures that were taken moments before tragedy!

Back in 2015, the popular press was telling us that it was more likely for someone to die while taking a selfie than to be killed by a shark attack. The so-called “killfie” has a lot to answer for. Selfie or not, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Photos are moments of time caught on film forever. And when a picture is taken just before tragedy strikes, they become poignant reminders of what was to come. The people in the picture have no idea of what is coming. But we know. We see a smiling John F. Kennedy riding through the streets of Dallas in 1963, minutes before he was shot dead. Or we study a picture of John Lennon signing an autograph for Mark Chapman, the man who would shoot him dead not long after the picture was taken. Then there is the image of a smiling Princess Diana moments before she entered the car in which she died in that fateful crash in Paris. They are oblivious to what is coming. But we are not. We have put together a collection of pictures that were taken just before disaster, even tragedy, struck. Most capture a moment in time just before very bad things happened. Here are 15 pictures that were taken just before things went very, very wrong. And trust us, our old friend the selfie has a lot to answer for in these stories.

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