Sailendra Nath Roy Dies In Zip-Line Stunt

A stuntman Sailendra Nath Roy a 49-year-old police officer ,who held the Guinness World Record for covering the longest distance on a zip wire hanging by a tuft of his hair met an unexpected end in West Bengal Sunday while trying to cross the Teesta river, hanging   180m (594ft) wire above the water by his hair.

After attaching his shoulder-length hair to a pulley on the wire, Mr Roy had completed around half the distance but then became entangled and found himself unable to move.



Home Guard Sailendra Nath Roy, 49, had tied a tuft of his hair to a 600-foot long zip wire about 70 feet above the river's water level in an attempt to create a new world record in Siliguri in Darjeeling district.

After attaching his shoulder-length hair to a pulley on the zip-line, Roy had completed about 50 percent of the crossing, which started from a point close to the Sevak Coronation Bridge, when his pony-tail became entangled and he found himself unable to move, an AFP photographer at the scene said. He died while struggling to free himself as helpless spectators looked on.

The spectators, who had gathered to see the stunt, initially cheered him on when he got stuck, but screamed in horror when they saw Roy making desperate but futile attempts to free himself and move forward."Roy tried frantically to get hold of a second rope to reach the finishing point," senior local police officer K. Jayaraman told AFP

After several minutes, Mr Roy stopped moving and was eventually rescued. No ambulance or doctor was present during the stunt.

He was admitted to hospital in nearby Siliguri, but was declared dead by doctors after a suspected heart attack.

Mr Roth pulling a train on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway last year
A post-mortem examination is expected to be completed later on Monday.

Mr Roy achieved the Guinness World Record after covering 82.5m (271ft) on a zip-line while attached by his hair in 2011 at the Neemrana Fort, a heritage hotel in the desert state of Rajasthan.

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