Pair died while taking a selfie: Brother

NEW DELHI — An Indian husband and wife who fell to their deaths from a popular overlook at Yosemite National Park in the western U.S. were apparently taking a selfie, the man’s brother said Tuesday.

Park rangers recovered the bodies of 29-year-old Vishnu Viswanath and 30-year-old Meenakshi Moorthy Thursday about 245 metres below Taft Point, where visitors can walk to the edge of a vertigoinducing granite ledge that doesn’t have a railing.

Viswanath, who Cisco India said was a software engineer at the company’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters, and Moorthy had set up their tripod near the ledge Tuesday night, Viswanath’s brother, Jishnu, told The Associated Press.

Park visitors the next morning saw the camera and alerted rangers.