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Sunday, March 19, 2006

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Uruguay reality show accident leaves seven dead, others limbless
Seven people died and others were severely injured while participating in a
feel-good reality show in Uruguay.
The show is called A Challenge to the Heart, and it exists to “raise funds for
local charities by completing difficult tasks set by the network — in this case
manoeuvring a train a certain distance down railway tracks,” the BBC reports.
“Contestants were pushing and pulling a train and two carriages when the vehicle
gained speed and ran them over.”
The accident “killed seven people and injured at least 11, severing some of
their limbs,” according to the BBC. Adding to the horror, “[a]bout 3,000
schoolchildren were at the recording and witnessed the accident.”

Seven killed in Uruguay TV stunt [BBC News]


Nicole <niks@...> wrote:
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay --Seven residents of a Uruguayan town were killed on
Friday when they were run over by a train they were moving manually as part
of a reality television show aimed at raising funds for a local hospital,
police said.

Several hundred townspeople from Young, about 235 miles west of the capital
of Montevideo, were hauling a locomotive and two attached cars down a track
-- pushing and pulling from different sides -- when some participants fell
under the wheels, said a police department spokesman.

Several other people were hurt in Friday's accident, three of them
critically.

Eyewitness Ana Portela told a local radio station that the train was moving
when "somebody slipped and fell under the locomotive, and others were
falling alongside it."

"There were shouts and somebody said 'my arm!'" Portela said. "Everybody was
in a state of shock."

The residents were taking part in the program "A Challenge to the Heart," in
which Uruguayan communities can raise funds for local charities by
completing difficult tasks set by the network, in this case moving a train a
certain distance down railroad tracks.

"We're deeply saddened and Channel 10 offers its solidarity and support to
the families involved in this unexpected tragedy that came, in fact, while
they were trying to help others," said a spokeswoman for the network airing
the reality show.
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Subject: Re: // Survivor \\ strange sighting on skynews.


At 11:16 AM 4/19/2006, you wrote:
>Are you sure it wasn't around the first of the month, being an April Fool's
>joke?


it wasn't a joke, i saw it too, i just don't remember details. it was in a
south american country i think...

barbara


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>some weeks ago i saw a short news break stating that 7 survivor's in
>tv reality show were killed completing a task of pushing a train.
>Nothing since..... could this be true...... the new seris GUANA.
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