A 17-year-old Dutch girl has been killed in a fall while taking part in a bungee-jumping trip in northern Spain, the second such death in the country in less than a month.
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Emergency services attended the scene and attempted to save the girl but she was pronounced dead a short time later.
The 17-year-old girl successfully completed her first bungee jump earlier in the day before making her way to the arched viaduct for her second jump of the day.
Two men from the bungee jump company have been charged with manslaughter in connection with Ms De Abreu’s death.
The head of the local police in Cabezon de la Sal, Joaquin Gonzalez, told local newspaper El Diario Montanes that he had no idea bungee jumping took place in the vicinity because it was extremely risky. “For reasons that are unclear, she fell from the jumping area, which was 40 metres up, into the dry part of the riverbed”.
This is not the first bungee jumping death in Spain this year.
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On July 21, a British tourist died while performing a similar jump off the Tablate Bridge Lanjaron, Granada.
