Breaking News: Nollywood Actor Junior Pope Drowns And Dies While On A Boat To A Movie Set

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The Nigerian Nollywood industry has been thrown into mourning following the sad demise of Nollywood actor, Junior Pope Odonwodo popular Calle Junior Pope.
The actor and three of his colleagues were coming back from a movie location in a boat when they fell into the Anam River in Anambra state.
Their bodies have since been recovered.
Hours ago, the actor shared a video of himself taken yesterday in a boat and praying frantically to arrive at his destination safely. captioning the video, he wrote: "See me lamenting....... The risk we take to entertain you; crossing the river Niger yesterday with no life jacket.....Na wahoooo does that??"
The accident unfortunately happened on his way back from the location today April 10th.
The 39-year-old was married to Jennifer Awele, and they have three children together.

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