Model who died after bungee jump was ‘still alive after she landed’ | News World

A 21-year-old model who was thrown to her death with no bungee cord is claimed to have been alive after landing.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas fell 130ft to her death in front of horrified witnesses in Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil, after staff didn’t properly attach her safety harness.

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.

Footage showed the moment instructors looked down over the bridge after she was thrown off, with the camera panning to indicate the security line still lying on the platform. Staff members appeared unaware that she was not connected to the primary rope.

Now, a nurse who tried to avoid wasting her has said she was initially alive when she reached her.

Rayza Dias said: ‘I scraped my whole hand because there’s a steep slope down there and just one rope for us to climb down.’

Rodrigues de Freitas had a weak pulse and was respiratory heavily by the point Dias reached her.

She died shortly afterwards and was buried in São Paulo on Sunday.

Rodrigues de Freitas’ mother said after her funeral: ‘That damned rope took you away from me without end. 

”My beloved daughter, you might be gone, and all that continues to be here is pain and longing. I’ll love you without end.’

Ms Rodrigues de Freitas had uploaded a string of social media posts before the trip, excited in regards to 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. 

Entre Cordas’s Instagram page, which advertised ‘a jump to the extraordinary,’ was reportedly taken down after the death.

The lads accused of not attaching the security rope fled after realising their mistake before they were positioned and arrested in a close-by woodland.

Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, and Vitor de Freitas Goncalves, 27, said they ‘can’t remember’ who must have put the security rope on.

They’ve been charged with homicide.

Town of Limeira said they’re trying to take legal motion against the Brazilian Government for failing to observe access to the old railway bridge where the bungee jumps operated.

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