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Karnataka :Search still on for Kannada actors who drowned during shooting

| | Nov 08, 2016, at 07:11 pm
Bengaluru, Oct 8 (IBNS) : A massive search is still on for two Kannada actors believed to have drowned in a dam on Monday after they jumped off a helicopter while shooting for a film 35 km west off Bengaluru, reports said.

Stuntmen Anil and Uday, while filming the climax of Kannada movie "Masthigudi", plunged into the waters from a height of around 30 feet. They never surfaced.

The lead actor of the film, Duniya Vijay, had also jumped but he was saved in time.

The producer, director and stunt director have been accused of criminal negligence in a police complaint.

Divers and rescuers searched for the two for hours  before calling it  off at night. They resumed their search on Tuesday  morning.


 

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