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Television presenter reads breaking news report detailing her husband's death

28-year-old Supreet Kaur was presenting a news bulletin on Indian TV when live report detailed the car accident in which her husband had died.

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AN INDIAN TELEVISION presenter has been praised for her calmness and bravery after reading out a breaking news report of a road accident which killed her husband.

Supreet Kaur was presenting a news bulletin on the IBC-24 news channel in Chhattisgarh state yesterday when a reporter phoned in live with details of an accident which killed three of the five people travelling in an SUV.

The report did not name the victims. But Kaur, 28, realised her husband was probably among those killed as he was travelling on the same route and at the same time with four others, the channel’s news chief Anshuman Sharma told AFP.

When the reporter said all the victims were from Bhilai and were travelling in a Renault Duster, she immediately had a hunch her husband had died in the crash.

Kaur nevertheless kept her composure. Only when the bulletin was over did she rush from the studio to confirm her fears.

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“She is an extremely brave woman. She has been with us for the last nine years. We are really proud of her,” said Sharma of Kaur, who was married two years ago.

Social media users heaped praise on Kaur, calling her a hero.

“Salute Supreet’s strength in dealing with her husband’s demise with extraordinary bravery & professionalism,” tweeted the state chief minister Raman Singh.

“Supreet Kaur: Salute. And deepest sympathies,” author and commentator Shobha De wrote, also on Twitter.

© – AFP, 2017

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    Apr 9th 2017, 2:58 PM

    I will never in my life achieve that degree of professionalism

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:06 PM

    @Ruby Carter: Not many would that’s truly heart breaking.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:29 PM

    This article is in very poor taste in my opinion, particularly the embedded video where we can all feast on her realisation that her husband has died.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 4:28 PM

    Car crash television for sure.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 4:31 PM

    @Jarlath Reidy: well said totally agree hope you are keeping well ☺️

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    Apr 9th 2017, 5:06 PM

    @Shane Murphy: it is kind of disgusting. Click bait making use of someone’s pain.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:18 PM

    Brave yes, but what was she supposed to do? Break down and cry in front of millions of people? Walk out of the studio wailing and crying? She simply did her job under difficult circumstances.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 7:49 PM

    @Banana Rama: Hope you’re not married ye little tosser.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:08 PM

    Bravery and professionalism my eye, she must not have been too fond of the husband.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:18 PM

    @Keith D’Arcy: AH

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:19 PM

    @Keith D’Arcy: muppet

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:34 PM

    @Jimmyjoe Wallace: what? I can’t imagine the dawn of the reality flowing over her that it could be her husband. I think she probably just wanted to get to the end of the segment and rush to her husband. Poor lady. Nice judgement.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:41 PM

    @Deborah Behan: Jimmyjoe was responding to Keith D’Arcy’s idiotic comment by suggesting that Ms Kaur was not too fond of her deceased husband.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 4:02 PM

    @Keith D’Arcy: I take it your divorce didn’t go well.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 5:23 PM

    @Matt Connolly: happily married thanks Matt. I know if I had a hunch that my wife was in a car accident reading the news of said accident would be the last thing on my mind. It’s not professional or brave, it’s strange.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 8:18 PM

    @Keith D’Arcy: They were married 2 years. Not long enough for the shine to have worn off I’d imagine. You must be married for much longer to have become so jaded.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:27 PM

    What self respecting network would allow the wife of the victim deliver this news story. Surely there is about 7 other reporters knocking around.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:36 PM

    @Sarah Jane: it was a phoned in live report.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:51 PM

    They probably didn’t know Sarah

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:43 PM

    Professional, yes .. hero ? No .. people react differently. Shock and grief hits you in many different ways ..

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    Apr 9th 2017, 4:22 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: Thanks Dr. Phil.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 10:16 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: don’t mind grainne abdulabadzabway , she’s a self thought professor of trolling.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 11:35 PM

    @Sinbad the sailor: cheers ! I wasn’t taking the bait ..

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:01 PM

    Nightmarish

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    Apr 9th 2017, 3:45 PM

    What a woman

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    Apr 9th 2017, 9:03 PM

    They didn’t know and she didn’t didn’t know, meaning this story is bull.

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    Apr 9th 2017, 7:21 PM

    I am absolutely in awe of this woman.

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    Apr 10th 2017, 7:43 AM

    Couldn’t watch that. Poor lady.

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