Pop star Selina Jen (任家萱), who sustained severe burns when an explosion scene went awry on the set of a TV series being shot in China on Friday afternoon, was flown back to Taipei on a medical charter flight on Sunday night, her father said.
His daughter returned home to receive medical treatment for burns to her hips and thighs following the accident on the set of the drama I Have a Date with Spring during filming in Shanghai, Jen Ming-ting (任明廷) told reporters.
She was in stable condition, but would require skin graft surgery at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Linkou, he said.
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The singer-actress, whose 29th birthday is on Sunday, is a member of Taiwan’s popular pop singing group S.H.E and has also appeared in a number of TV dramas.
Local Chinese-language media outlets said Jen had suffered third-degree burns on up to 40 percent of her body, while her Chinese co-star, actor-singer Yu Haoming (俞灝明), suffered equally seriously burns and remains hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital.
During Friday’s shoot, a series of five explosions were supposed to be set off one after another to allow Jen and Yu enough time to escape from a burning house, but the explosions went off simultaneously, the media reports said.
The reports said Selina Jen’s legs were badly burned because she was wearing silk stockings at the time.
The Chinese-language United Daily News reported that thousands of fans had put their names on a Web site offering to pray for her.
S.H.E has released 12 albums since being formed in 2000.
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