Caleb Bankston, a competitor on “Survivor: Blood vs. Water,” died in a railway accident Tuesday, People reports. He was 26.
Bankston, who finished in ninth place on last year’s reality competition, died after a train he was on derailed. Bankston had worked for the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham.
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The former reality TV contestant was engaged to fellow contestant Colton Cumbie, who had been accused of racism while competing on an earlier edition of the CBS series, “One World.” (Cumbie returned to compete with Bankston on “Blood vs.