A 10-year-old aspiring footballer died from a high-voltage shock after stepping on a fallen power line.
The horror unfolded as Adrian David Feitoza Coelho was being driven back home by his mother from a visit to the optician.
A storm was raging and the heavy rain caused a power line to snap and fall near the vehicle.
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Adrian stepped on the fallen cable, received a high-voltage shock, and fell to the ground.
He was rushed to hospital but doctors couldn’t save him.
The boy’s dad, Derek Coelho, told local media: “The electrical surge blew up the battery in my car and it stopped working.
“My wife didn’t keep driving. She was forced to stop.”
After seeing sparks and smoke, people in a nearby bar reportedly began waving at the pair and shouting at them to get out of the car.
Adrian’s mother got out and opened the door for her son, who also climbed out.
But as they began running for cover, Adrian stepped on the cable.
His mum wanted to help him but was warned to keep back in case she was also electrocuted, as reported by Need To Know.
When firefighters arrived at the scene in Planaltina, on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil, last Thursday (20 Mar) they found Adrian with burns on his body and in cardiac arrest.
They gave him CPR and took him to a local hospital, but he tragically died.
Adrian was laid to rest on Saturday (22 Mar). He leaves behind three younger siblings.
He enjoyed singing at church and dreamed of becoming a footballer.
His parents were planning to take him to a football academy to enrol him.
Derek, 36, said: “He was a fun and outgoing boy.”
The police are investigating the case.
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