{"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\/2016\/11\/india-stuntmen-drown-after-reservoir-jump-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"India stuntmen drown after reservoir jump goes wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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
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
A local inspector told Agence France Presse that the two men could not swim and were not rescued in time.<\/p>\n
Police have registered a criminal case of negligence against the producers.<\/p>\n
A senior officer told AFP: “Precautionary and safety measures were not taken for the shoot. There were no life jackets, no rescue team nor an ambulance.”<\/p>\n
Duniya Vijay, who is one of Kannada cinema’s top actors, also jumped into the water with the stuntmen, but managed to swim ashore without injury.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":266177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n