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A woman in Italy died after falling 40 meters from a zip line while her niece was recording her

He was traveling at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour when his harness became detached.

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05/08/2024
Updated at 10:30 am

A 41 year old woman died this Sunday After falling from a zip line in the town of Bema (Italy), When the victim was at an altitude of about 40 metres, he would have separated himself from the harness, traveling at a speed of . , According to the newspaper ‘Corriere Della Sera’, the speed of 120 kilometers per hour and its downward descent was one and a half kilometers long and 230 meters above sea level.

woman’s niece they were recording the moment To keep it as a souvenir, but everything went wrong when his aunt slipped out of the harness and fell into the woods. It was they who called the woman’s husband and her other sisters present in the area and raised an alarm.

Efforts to save him were in vain. And Ghizlane lost her life instantly. Rescue teams went to the crash site to investigate the circumstances that led to the tragedy.

The first hypothesis indicated that the victim suddenly applied the brakes shortly before reaching the end of the zip line, leaving her hanging in the air, however It is not known why the harness came loose.

, an investigation that has yet to be resolved. The general director of the Fly Emotion zip line company, Matteo Sanguinetti, expressed regret over what happened: «More than 200 thousand people have flown on the crossing between the city of Bema and Albaredo. Everything happens with special harnesses with maximum safety. “I’m shocked and in disbelief,” he said.