Tarzan series actor killed in plane crash
All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, died after it crashed in a lake near the US city of Nashville, authorities said. He was 58.
The business jet crashed at around 11am local time on Saturday,
WASHINGTON:
shortly after taking off from the Smyrna, Tennessee airport for Palm Beach, Florida, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue (RCFR) said on Facebook. The plane went down into Percy Priest Lake, about 19km south of Nashville.
Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 movie Tarzan in Manhattan. He later starred in the TV series Tarzan: The Epic
Adventures, which ran from 1996-97.
His wife Gwen Shamblin Lara, whom he married in 2018, was the leader of a Christian weight-loss group called Weigh Down Ministries.
She founded the group in 1986, and then in 1999 founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, Tennessee. to travel, commerce and trade, and trigger needless slaughtering of food animals. This can have serious consequences for peoples’ lives and livelihoods,” the then assistant director-general for health security at WHO said.
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At present, these four are the only variants of concern – the mutations seen in them appear to make the coronavirus more infective or more resistant to immunity triggered by a past infection or a vaccine. B.1.617.2, or the Delta variant, has shown signs of being more infective as well as more resistant.it is seen to have, at least partly, led to India’s devastating second wave of cases that began in the spring, and has now raised alarm in the UK, there government scientists see the early stages of a third wave of infections building in the country. Ravi Gupta of the University of Cambridge, who is a member of the UK government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, said although new cases were “relatively low” the B.1.617 variant had fuelled “exponential growth”, BBC reported.
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