Last photo of woman hanging outside train for a picture before falling and smashing her head on rocks

A tourist who leaned out of a train to take a selfie on a famous track has d!ed after smashing into a rock and falling off the train. 
 

According to Sri Lankan news site Daily Mirror, 53-year-old Olga Perminova, a Russian tourist, was on the famed Podi Menike train, which covers a 300km-long scenic route between Colombo Fort and Badulla in Sri Lanka. 
 

Local police said Ms Perminova knocked against a rock, fell off the train and suffered severe injuries. 
 

The train, headed towards Colombo Fort, was between the Badulla and Hali Ela railway stations when the incident occurred. 
 

Photos of Ms Perminova right before the tragedy show her in a pink dress and hanging from the train footboard. 

Following the fall, she was given emergency treatment but reportedly d!ed in hospital from her head injuries. 
 

She had been travelling with a Russian tour group, and arrangements are under way to repatriate her body to Russia. 
 

Ms Perminova was reportedly a grandmother originally from Saratov in south-western Russia, and worked for a security company in Moscow, according to British news site The Sun. 
 

Her de@th came after two women d!ed on a train track at Anuradhapura New Town railway station in northern Sri Lanka in December 2024. They were struck by a train while taking a selfie on the train track. 
 

The two women were part of a group that was attending a taekwondo tournament at the time. One of them was an 18-year-old student, and the other the 37-year-old mother of another student participant, reported Daily Mirror.