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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nThis is the moment a 21-year-old model plunged to her death after she was thrown from a bridge without a bungee cord.\n\nOnline footage shows the woman being hurled down a 130ft drop at a popular bungee jumping spot in Limeira, São Paulo, in Brazil.\n\nThe victim, named locally as Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, fell to her death in front of horrified witnesses, who can be heard shouting: ‘the rope people, the rope.’\n\nVideos 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.\n\nMaria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas has been named as the victim of the jump-gone-wrong\n\nThe workers appear unaware that she is not connected to the main rope.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nAfter she is thrown off, instructors look down as the camera pans to show the safety line still lying on the platform.\n\nFirefighters and paramedics were called to the model’s aid, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nBrazilian media reported that two people tried to flee into nearby woodland after the fall but were captured by a police helicopter.\n\nSix people were taken to Limeira’s 2nd Police District, with three men reportedly arrested at the scene.\n\nMs Rodrigues de Freitas had uploaded a string of social media posts before the trip, excited about the jump and sharing pictures of the venue.\n\n‘Who was the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?’ she wrote beside a photograph of an Entre Cordas banner.\n\nThe bridge was advertised as ‘a jump to the extraordinary’ (Picture: google maps)\n\nThe jump appeared to involve bungee jump-rope operator Entre Cordas and Ih Voei, a linked instructor brand.\n\nLocal media reports staff at the scene were wearing shirts bearing the names of both brands.\n\nEntre Cordas’s Instagram page, which advertised ‘a jump to the extraordinary,’ was reportedly taken down after the death.\n\nPolice are investigating whether negligence led to Ms Rodrigues de Freitas’s death.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Model thrown to her death after workers forgot to attach bungee cord"
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