Teen TV extras drown during battle scene
p2pnet news view | TV:- Three TV extras, two of them students, drowned during the filming of a battle scene on the 70-meter wide Enyang River in southwestern China.
Neither their parents nor schools knew the dead teenagers were working as extras, “paid between 20 yuan (US$2.90) and 40 yuan a day,” says the Shanghai Daily.
More than 60 part-time actors were wading across the river when several fell in, it says, going on the third victim was 22.
Some 200 rescuers, including local fishermen, retrieved the bodies, says the story, adding:
“The local Safety Supervision Bureau blamed the drama team for the accidents, saying the crew had no emergency plan to cope with dangerous scenes like wading a river.”
Shanghai Daily – Three extras drown during filming, September 3, 2009
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