Prop gun fired by Alec Baldwin kills woman on set: police
The Hindu
“Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin”
U.S. actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on a film set in New Mexico, U.S. law enforcement officers said on October 21.
The incident happened on the set of "Rust" in the southwestern U.S. state, where Mr. Baldwin is playing the lead in a 19th-century western.
Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza "were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin," the sheriff in Santa Fe said in a statement.
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