Roy died due to a heart attack during his record try at Teesta River. Sailendra Nath Roy did not have permission to perform the stunt, and no medical or emergency personnel were on site. Police confirmed that Chanchal Lahiri, 41 – also known as the Wizard Mandrake – drowned in the Hooghly River in West Bengal state after failing to break free of the six locks and chain.In front of an expectant crowd, Mr Lahiri was meant to escape and swim to shore. Roy had no permission to do the stunt and had set up the zip-line earlier in the day. A record-holding Indian stuntman known for using his long hair in weird ways died Sunday as he attempted to cross a river on a zip-line attached to his ponytail. The BBC reported there were no doctors or emergency personnel on site. His body, held to the wire by his ponytail 70 feet above the river, hung for nearly 45 minutes as horrified spectators, who had come to cheer him on, watched from a nearby bridge. Larry Desmedt, a New York-based custom motorcycle builder and biker better known nationally as Indian Larry, died on Monday in Charlotte, N.C., of injuries he suffered doing a stunt … "Mr. Roy convinced her that crossing the Teesta River would be his last. Roy, a police officer, made it about 300 feet across the 600-foot wire before he became stuck. Indian police have recovered the body of a magician who drowned when a Houdini-like stunt in a river went wrong. He was trying to scream out some instruction," Balai Sutradhar, a photographer who was covering the stunt, Roy earned a Guinness World Record in 2011 for traveling the farthest distance along a zip-line using his hair. Roy died on 28 April 2013, while trying to beat his own record of farthest distance travelled on a zip wire using hair. "He was desperately trying to move forward. Indian stuntman drowns after attempting Harry Houdini trick in Ganges River Updated June 18, 2019 10:47:34 Photo: Mr Lahiri failed to emerge after being lowered into the Ganges to perform his trick. In 2007, he swung between two buildings with his ponytail tied to a rope. Indian Larry (born Lawrence DeSmedt; April 28, 1949 – August 30, 2004) was a motorcycle builder and artist, stunt rider, and biker. … Last year, he used his ponytail to pull a train and four train cars, a stunt he previously completed in 2008, Sky News "His wife used to urge him to quit doing dangerous stunts," an anonymous friend told the BBC.
Last year, he used his ponytail to pull a train and four train cars. But the alarm was raised after he did not appear after ten minutes.Still tied with the chain, his body then washed up roughly 1km from where he was submerged and was identified late last night.“He was a great stunt artist and this is a big loss for the Indian magic community,” said Madan Bharti, a historian of Indian magic.“If I can free myself it will be magic, if I cannot, it will be tragic,” he said ominously.In 1912, American-Hungarian illusionist Harry Houdini freed himself in just 57 seconds from a nailed and roped packing crate that had been lowered into New York’s East River.Over twenty years ago he lowered himself into its waters inside a glass box but managed to safely escape.Sumit Kharbanda, the president of the Indian Brotherhood of Magicians in Delhi, expressed his surprise at Mr Lahiri’s death, saying the stuntman was experienced.“He used to practice in swimming pools and rivers,” Mr Kharbanda said.“All magic has to be perfect and it takes a lot of practice, but even with practice things can go wrong.