Bungee jump workers forget to attach rope. Woman dead, 6 arrested [View all]

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A 21-year-old woman reportedly died Saturday when staff at a bungee-jumping event pushed her from a bridge without her being strapped to a safety rope, dropping her about 130 feet into a ravine.

The incident occurred on the "Skeleton Bridge" in Limeira, in the state of São Paulo. Six people connected to the event have been taken into custody: five men and one woman.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was carried onto the platform by two men, then shoved from the edge, according to a video of the fall that surfaced online, as bystanders yelled that she didn't have a rope tied to her and plummeted some 40 meters into a canyon. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene.


Her fiancé, who had also been at the event, was receiving medical treatment after becoming ill on hearing of her death, according to a local news account that tracked rescue operations.

Some organizers reportedly ran from the scene shortly after she fell, and authorities later located two who had fled with the aid of a police helicopter that surveyed a patch of woodland next to the bridge, local station Rpido no Ar reported.