{"id":350869,"date":"2026-06-14T21:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=350869"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:31:35","slug":"model-falls-to-her-death-after-bungee-employees-forgot-to-connect-cord-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/model-falls-to-her-death-after-bungee-employees-forgot-to-connect-cord-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Model falls to her death after bungee employees ‘forgot to connect cord’ | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

Online footage shows the lady being hurled down a 130ft drop at a well-liked bungee jumping spot in Limeira,\u00a0S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>, in Brazil.<\/p>\n

The victim, named locally as Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, fell to her death in front of horrified witnesses, who might be heard shouting: \u2018the rope people, the rope.\u2019<\/p>\n

Videos show her being carried horizontally by her legs and arms in a \u2018Superman\u2019 pose at the highest of Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned railway bridge.<\/p>\n

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Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas has been named because the victim of the jump-gone-wrong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The employees appear unaware that she shouldn’t be connected to the most important rope.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Firefighters and paramedics were called to the model\u2019s aid, but she was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n

Brazilian media reported that two people tried to flee into nearby woodland after the autumn but were captured by a police helicopter.<\/p>\n

Six people were taken to Limeira\u2019s 2nd Police District, with three men reportedly arrested on the scene.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u2018Who was the crazy one that let me jump off a bridge?\u2019 she wrote beside a photograph of an Entre Cordas banner.<\/p>\n

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The bridge was advertised as \u2018a jump to the extraordinary\u2019 (Picture: google maps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jump appeared to involve bungee jump-rope operator Entre Cordas and\u00a0Ih Voei, a linked instructor brand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local media reports staff on the scene were wearing shirts bearing the names of each brands.<\/p>\n

Entre Cordas\u2019s Instagram page, which advertised \u2018a jump to the extraordinary,\u2019 was reportedly taken down after the death.<\/p>\n

Police are investigating whether negligence led to Ms Rodrigues de Freitas\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

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