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Magician goes missing in river while performing Houdini-inspired trick under Howrah bridge

| @indiablooms | Jun 17, 2019, at 07:35 pm

Kolkata, June 17 (IBNS): A magician is feared dead after he disappeared in the river Hooghly on Sunday, media reports said.

Chanchal Lahiri, the 40-year-old magician who was lowered into the water bound in ropes and chains, was attempting a Harry Houdini-inspired act.

According to reports, spectators got panicky when the magician, who was lowered into the river standing in a six-foot tall cage with six locks, did not emerge even after 10 minutes.

Police and Disaster Management Group officials divers searched for him till it became too dark to continue. They found no trace of him.

"We tried to spot him. But it seems the stream has swept him away. Our divers dived deep, but could not locate him," NDTV quoted a senior official as saying.

Though Lahiri had taken permission for the act from the police and the Kolkata Port Trust, police said he had mentioned the act was to happen in a boat or vessel and there was no connection with water. Hence he was allowed to go ahead.

He had apparently mentioned an "extra act" which he did not clarify.

 

 

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