A performer of stunts, who had entered the Guinness Book of World Records last year, has died of a heart attack while performing a stunt over the Teesta River in West Bengal’s Siliguri District.
Sailen Nath Roy, 45, died while performing a rope stunt over Teesta River at Sevoke.
Roy was crossing the turbulent river by hanging from a pulley tied to his ponytail. He died when his pulley got stuck and prevented him from moving freely.
Spectators helplessly watched him dying as he hung mid-air from the rope unable to move, the police said on Sunday.
There were no safety measures in place. Roy was later pulled ashore by the onlookers, where doctors declared him dead of cardiac arrest.
Roy, a police driver, was a resident of Milan Pally. He entered the Guinness Book of World Records by pulling the heritage Darjeeling Himalayan toy train in September 2012.
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