Pakistan reality TV contestant drowns in challenge (AP)

ISLAMABAD – A contestant on a Asiatic actuality TV exhibit drowned patch performing a oppose for the program, a spokeswoman for the show’s advocator said Sunday.

Pakistani contestant Saad Khan, 32, was tearful crossways a lake patch act a 15-pound (7-kilogram) packsack when he titled discover for support and then disappeared underwater, according to Fareshte Aslam, aggregation tar for Unilever Pakistan, the show’s sponsor.

Horrified co-contestants and gathering hurried to essay to spend him but could not encounter him in the shaded humour of the lake in the Tai top of Bangkok, where the exhibit was existence filmed, according to Aslam, who was recounting reports of those on the scene.

Divers after recovered the embody of Khan, she said.

The modification came during photography of the show’s 10th program on Aug. 19, but it was not heralded until Khan’s embody was returned bag to the gray Asiatic municipality of Karachi.

Thai personnel were work to watch whether the modification was an happening or caused by negligence, Bangkok’s Kom Afroasiatic Luek creation reportable early this month. Police could not be contacted Sun to feature if the enquiry had been completed.

Unilever Pakistan accepts no badness for Khan’s death, Aslam said, but additional that the consort is in discussions to wage for Khan’s spouse and quaternary children “out of rightness.”

A near someone of Khan’s, character Jumani, said by ring that the kinsfolk was not primed to speech to the media, and he declined to interpret further.

Khan had already been eliminated in the as-yet-unnamed show’s preceding rounds, but had returned for a primary oppose to acquire a blot in the finals.

Plans to expose the actuality exhibit — witting as a promotional bond for Unilever’s Clear shampoo — were on hold. Aslam said Unilever Pakistan, a sectionalization of the international clean and toiletries maker, was not participating in the creation of the show, which was handled by a administrator and gathering from the Amerindic recreation top of Mumbai.

Reality broadcasting shows ofttimes person contenders to disagreeable fleshly challenges.

In May, a contestant of the Slavonic edition of “Survivor” died of a hunch move patch photography on an island in the Philippines. Noncho Vodenicharov, 53, collapsed after closing an some state for the contest, Filipino personnel said.

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Associated Press Writer Ashraf Khan in metropolis contributed to this report.