Overview
- A 21-year-old woman was carried to the edge and launched from Ponte do Esqueleto in Limeira without a safety rope, falling about 40 metres in a video that circulated online; witnesses shouted that the rope was not attached.
- Police say the fall occurred on Saturday and that the woman did not survive despite bystanders and an off-duty nurse reporting she was briefly alive when rescuers reached her.
- Three instructors — Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves and Maicon Fernandes Cintra — have been arrested, charged with homicide or manslaughter and remanded after questioning in which they said they could not recall who made the final safety checks.
- Investigators are searching for a missing action camera that may contain crucial footage and say several staff tried to flee the scene; authorities have released interrogation excerpts and taken six people into custody overall.
- Limeira officials say the abandoned federal bridge is a known hazard, plan legal action over lack of access control, and the ongoing probe could lead to criminal penalties for operators and tighter oversight of such informal jump sites.