Actor Dead After Being Hoisted By Own Petard
Garoun Enquirer
18 March YC 125
by Vesh Jodexi
INTAKI – An explosion on stage has killed the actor Nushil Vesprata, 64, during an evening performance of Dusivette’s classic play, “Paths of Ruin,” being held at the Narikaam Theatre in the city of Subil-Kayat.
Terrified audience members rushed out of the theatre for safety after the explosion.
“It was total havoc in there. I know act two was meant to finish with a bang but not like that!” Said one theatre patron.
Monsieur Vesprata was killed during a soliloquy in act two just after delivering the seminal line, “For this becomes a death and a beginning.” Before disappearing in a cloud of smoke and debris.
Gathering crowds and shocked theatre-goers outside were surprised when armed officers of the Federal Police Special Enforcement Unit arrived on the scene in a convoy of armoured personnel carriers and quickly cordoned off the scene at the theatre.
Tactical assault teams of the Special Enforcement Unit then stormed the theatre and sounds of gunfire could be heard by the crowds outside as it has been reported that the Special Enforcement Unit engaged with insurgents belonging to a splinter faction of the Free Intaki Army, killing 4 insurgents.
A further search of the theatre revealed explosives and other bomb making equipment was being stored beneath the main stage in addition to small arms and ammunition where it is now believed they were to be used in future terrorist attacks.
Senior Detective-Constable Juanil Razim of Federal Police had this to say regarding their operation at the Narikaam Theatre.
“Today the Special Enforcement Unit acting on actionable intelligence we have received conducted an operation at the Narikaam theatre in Subil-Kayat with the intention of apprehending the actor Nushil Vesprata.
We believe Nushil Vesprata was the assumed identity of the wanted fugitive and terrorist Rushil Keram, co-founder of the Intaki ultranationalist terror group the Zefil-Keram Gang responsible for mass-murder and other atrocities in the Solitude region in the mid to late YC 90’s.
Given evidence gathered at the Narikaam Theatre and at Rushil Keram’s residence it is our belief that he had been using his position under the identity of Nushil Vesprata to recruit and radicalize members of the community in the hateful ideology of Intaki ultranationalism and conduct future terror attacks as part of a splinter faction of the Free Intaki Army.
Rushil Keram was killed when he accidentally activated an anti-personnel mine that had been stored beneath the main stage of the Narikaam theatre during a performance being held.”
In response to the operation by the Special Enforcement Unit the Subil-Kayat city government has raised its terror alert level from ‘Probable’ to ‘Expected’ in which a terrorist attack is believed to be ‘highly likely’ in the near future.
The Subil-Kayat Gendarmes office of public affairs cautions the public to exercise extreme vigilance in the near future and to report any suspicious activity to the local Gendarmes or the Federal authorities.