A video was taken of the moment the model was thrown to her death (Picture: Police)
A 21-year-old model who was thrown to her death without a bungee cord is said 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 workers failed to properly attach her safety harness.
Videos show her being carried horizontally by her arms and legs in a ‘Superman’ pose at the top 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 show the safety line still lying on the platform. Staff members appeared unaware that she was not connected to the main rope.
Now,a nurse who tried to save 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 only one rope for us to climb down.’
Rodrigues de Freitas was buried in São Paulo on Sunday (Picture: Police)Rodrigues de Freitas had a weak pulse and was breathing heavily by the time 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 forever. ”My beloved daughter,you are gone,and all that remains here is pain and longing. I will love you forever.’Ms Rodrigues de Freitas had uploaded a string of social media posts before the trip,excited about the jump and sharing pictures of the venue.‘Who was the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?’ she wrote beside a photograph of an Entre Cordas banner.
Multiple people have been arrested in relation to the accident (Picture: Police)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 men accused of not attaching the safety rope fled after realising their mistake before they were located and arrested in a nearby woodland.Maicon Fernandes Cintra,42,Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff,32,and Vitor de Freitas Goncalves,27,said they ‘can’t remember’ who should have put the safety rope on.They have been charged with homicide.The city of Limeira said they’re looking to take legal action against the Brazilian Government for failing to monitor access to the old railway bridge where the bungee jumps operated.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at .For more stories like this,check our news page.
