Tourist slips and drowns in waterfall in Chapada dos Veadeiros

A tourist drowned after slipping and falling into the deep part of a waterfall in Chapada dos Veadeiros, in Alto Paraíso de Goiás, in Goiás, on Saturday (17). The Fire Department reported that the tourist was in a group from the Federal District with 11 other people.

According to information from the applicants, at around 12pm, while bathing in the Almécegas 1 waterfall, at Fazenda São Bento, a man identified as Pedro Henrique Pereira Alves, aged 29, slipped from a drop in level and fell into the deep part of the waterfall and drowned. .

After about an hour submerged, the boy's body was removed by local employees from a depth of seven meters.

Firefighters state that land rescue techniques were used with the help of a long board, skeed board and tubular tape to transport the body from the scene to the attraction's headquarters, an average distance of 1 KM in rocky, extremely rugged and steep terrain. .

In addition to firefighters, military police, technical-scientific police and local guides participated in the incident. The victim's body was under the care of the technical-scientific police of Goiás.

Source: CNN Brasil

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