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That is the moment a 21-year-old model plunged to her death after she was thrown from a bridge with out a bungee cord.
Online footage shows the lady being hurled down a 130ft drop at a well-liked bungee jumping spot in Limeira, São Paulo, in Brazil.
The victim, named locally as Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, fell to her death in front of horrified witnesses, who might be heard shouting: ‘the rope people, the rope.’
Videos show her being carried horizontally by her legs and arms in a ‘Superman’ pose at the highest of Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned railway bridge.
The employees appear unaware that she shouldn’t be connected to the most important rope.
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After she is thrown off, instructors look down because the camera pans to indicate the protection line still lying on the platform.
Firefighters and paramedics were called to the model’s aid, but she was pronounced dead on the scene.
Brazilian media reported that two people tried to flee into nearby woodland after the autumn but were captured by a police helicopter.
Six people were taken to Limeira’s 2nd Police District, with three men reportedly arrested on the scene.
Ms Rodrigues de Freitas had uploaded a string of social media posts before the trip, excited concerning the jump and sharing pictures of the venue.
‘Who was the crazy one that let me jump off a bridge?’ she wrote beside a photograph of an Entre Cordas banner.
The jump appeared to involve bungee jump-rope operator Entre Cordas and Ih Voei, a linked instructor brand.
Local media reports staff on the scene were wearing shirts bearing the names of each brands.
Entre Cordas’s Instagram page, which advertised ‘a jump to the extraordinary,’ was reportedly taken down after the death.
Police are investigating whether negligence led to Ms Rodrigues de Freitas’s death.
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