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The latest internet craze – daring other users to post video clips of themselves getting cold water poured – has claimed the life of a father in Germany.
Eleven members of a bowling club in Isselburg, on the Dutch border, had filled a mechanical digger’s shovel with 2,000 litres of water, which was to be poured over them, as they took part in the ‘cold water challenge’.
But as the shovel was lifted into the air, the digger tipped over and the shovel hit the group – killing one man and injuring five of his friends.
The craze is relatively new to the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, where typical videos show users having a bucket of cold water tipped over their heads and nominating others to do the same.
