Iranian stunt man Peyman Abadi, who had appeared in a popular German TV series, has been killed during the filming of an Iranian TV series in Tehran.

Abadi was killed on Wednesday when a burning bus he was jumping out of overturned.

The 37-year-old Abadi was famous in Iran for doing stunts in the German TV series Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Motorway Police.

Abadi, who was born in Germany, returned to Iran in 2005 and established a professional stunt academy in Tehran.