A reporter was left horrified after he thinks he stepped on a missing girl’s body while filming a piece to camera about her disappearance.
Lenildo Frazão entered a river to show how deep the water was.
He was demonstrating where the 13-year-old was last seen.
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The water was up to his chest when suddenly he flinched.
He had felt something brush against him beneath the surface.
Visibly shaken, he could be heard telling his team: “I think there’s something down here at the bottom of the water.”
He then stepped back, saying: “No, I’m not going, I’m scared.
“It looked like an arm – could it be her?
“But it might be a fish too, I don’t know.”
After his report, firefighters resumed the search for the victim on the morning of 30 June, with the support of divers.
The schoolgirl’s body was found at the exact spot where Frazão had been filming, as reported by Need To Know.
The victim, named only as Raíssa, drowned while cooling off with friends in the Mearim River in Bacabal, north-eastern Brazil.
During his report, Frazão pointed out that the current was strong and the depth uneven, with “holes” in the riverbed.
A post-mortem showed no signs of violence, and the cause of death was recorded as accidental drowning.
Raíssa was laid to rest on the evening of 30 June.
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