NEW YORK (AP) - A clown suffered a fatal collapse in front of spectators at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Sixty-seven-year-old Robert
Blasetti went into cardiac arrest as he made balloon animals at Sixth
Avenue and West 39th Street on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at a
hospital.
Spokesman Orlando Veras
said Macy's was "saddened to report" that a parade marcher had suffered a
medical emergency. He declined to say whether the man was a Macy's
employee.
Also, a civilian New York
Police Department worker also became fatally ill during the parade. He
suffered an apparent heart attack while hooking up a vehicle to be towed
off the parade route at West 57th Street and Sixth Avenue. He also was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
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