{"id":266176,"date":"2016-11-08T05:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=266176"},"modified":"2016-11-08T05:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:38:47","slug":"india-stuntmen-drown-after-reservoir-jump-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=266176","title":{"rendered":"India stuntmen drown after reservoir jump goes wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Two Indian stuntmen have drowned after they jumped into a reservoir as part of a film shoot near Bangalore in south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The film crew was shooting a scene for a regional Kannada language film when Anil Verma and Raghav Uday dived from the helicopter into the water.<\/p>\n<p>A local inspector told Agence France Presse that the two men could not swim and were not rescued in time.<\/p>\n<p>Police have registered a criminal case of negligence against the producers.<\/p>\n<p>A senior officer told AFP: &#8220;Precautionary and safety measures were not taken for the shoot. There were no life jackets, no rescue team nor an ambulance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duniya Vijay, who is one of Kannada cinema&#8217;s top actors, also jumped into the water with the stuntmen, but managed to swim ashore without injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Indian stuntmen have drowned after they jumped into a reservoir as part of a film shoot near Bangalore in south of the country. The film crew was shooting a scene for a regional Kannada language film when Anil Verma and Raghav Uday dived from the helicopter into the water. A local inspector told Agence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":266177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}