A criminal investigation is under way in Brazil after a 21-year-old woman died during a rope-jumping excursion from a disused bridge in São Paulo state, with police examining claims that organisers failed to attach a critical safety rope before the jump.
Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, a physical education and sports management graduate from Jandira, fell around 40 metres from the Ponte do Esqueleto, or Skeleton Bridge, in Limeira on Saturday, 13 June.
