A woman and her daughter accidentally killed at a film location in Bengaluru

A woman and her five-year-old daughter who were watching a shoot were killed when a scene involving a car about to explode went terribly wrong in the SEZ of Bengaluru Aerospace Park in Bagalur, a suburb of the city, Friday night.

The accident occurred while shooting the film Kannada Ranam produced by Kanakapura Srinivas and performed by Chiranjeevi Sarja and Chetan.

The dead were identified as Sumera, 29, and Ahera, 5 years old. Shehnaz, the eldest daughter of Sumera, aged 8, was injured and treated.

The woman and her daughters were traveling to Sulibele when they saw the filming, for which the traffic would have been blocked.

to watch the shoot. Sumera, Ahera and Shehnaz were standing behind a filmed mobile van, parked near the place where the car was going to explode, eyewitnesses said.

Several compressor guns had been placed under an SUV. When firing, the guns were to propel the car in the air. However, when they were fired, one of the cannons – a metal cylinder 3.5 feet long – crossed the road at high speed and hit pbadersby, killing Ahera and Sumera on the spot, eyewitnesses said.

Shehnaz was a victim The police told the police, citing doctors, that his head and face injury was out of danger.

"The crew escaped"

Residents of a nearby village claimed that members of the filming unit the victims fled the scene abandoning everything in a few minutes. They were villagers from Mahadeva Kodigehalli who helped to transfer Shehnaz, wounded, to the hospital.

"No Authorization Taken"

Kala Krishnaswamy, DCP (Northeast), stated that the filming unit had not obtained permission to shoot. The police recorded a case of culpable homicide not constituting a murder against members of the unit.