India's news coverage of Bollywood star's death sparks anger

in #life7 years ago

Twitter users have expressed outrage over India's TV news graphics of Sridevi Kapoor in bathrooms in their coverage of her death.

A Dubai post-mortem report said the Bollywood superstar, known simply as Sridevi, died of accidental drowning in a hotel bath.

Some news programmes in India began screening images of the actress in bathtubs and bathrooms to visualise her last moments.

This led to a backlash on social media, with people expressing their anger by taking photos of the TV reports they found most shocking.

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