This paper’s front page lead report on Tuesday is about compromising safety for selfies at the seashore. Unfortunately, drowning season is here again. Two 35-year-old men lost their lives in a Lonavala lake recently. This was followed by the drowning of a 27 year-old woman in the sea near Bandra Fort.

In the first instance, the duo was picnicking at the hill station with four others at the time of the incident. The youths and a 29-year-old woman friend had decided to enter the lake, as the water looked inviting. Soon, though the trio started struggling. The woman was saved, but unfortunately both men could not be resuscitated.