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.’
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Rodrigues de Freitas had a weak pulse and was breathing heavily by the time Dias reached her.
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.