{"id":57169,"date":"2013-04-29T19:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T23:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=18299"},"modified":"2013-04-29T19:57:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T23:57:37","slug":"guinness-record-holder-dies-while-performing-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/04\/29\/guinness-record-holder-dies-while-performing-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinness record holder dies while performing stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Siliguri District.<br \/>\nSailen Nath Roy, 45, died while performing a rope stunt over Teesta River at Sevoke.<br \/>\nRoy 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.<br \/>\nSpectators helplessly watched him dying as he hung mid-air from the rope unable to move, the police said on Sunday.<br \/>\nThere were no safety measures in place. Roy was later pulled ashore by the onlookers, where doctors declared him dead of cardiac arrest.<br \/>\nRoy, 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.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/guinness-record-holder-dies-while-performing-stunt\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/guinness-record-holder-dies-while-performing-stunt\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Siliguri District. Sailen Nath Roy, 45, died while performing a rope stunt over Teesta River at Sevoke. Roy was crossing the turbulent river [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990],"class_list":["post-57169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}