He died while bungee jumping: he misheard the signal and jumped into the void without a rope

The event happened in Colombia. Yecenia Morales Gómez, 25, took to an abandoned viaduct with her boyfriend to practice extreme sports, but the afternoon ended in horror when she threw herself into the void without the rope to support it.

“She walked up to the launch site and already had things in place and, at any moment, she’s going. The friend tells me that they heard something, we do not know in this case if it was an order, if the monitors use a keyword. He heard that and she too and he throws himself, ”tells Andrés Morales, brother of the deceased, for a Colombian newspaper.

Yecenia’s boyfriend rushed to her side and attempted to perform first aid maneuvers to revive her partner, but it was too late. Amagá firefighters appeared at the scene and rescued the young woman’s body, while her boyfriend was taken to a nearby hospital to treat the injuries he sustained while going down to her rescue. “He is in shock, he does not respond,” Andrés admitted.

The medical report on the young woman’s death revealed that it was not the impact that ended her life: Yecenia “died of cardiac arrest” while plunging into the void, they said. insured from the Fredonia municipal hospital.

The company responsible for the practice, Sky Bungee Jumping, was frequently established on the viaduct of the old Antioquia railway; on the day of the tragedy, 100 people were registered to jump off the bridge.

Initial reports of the tragedy indicated that the Sky Bungee Jumping company did not have the necessary permits to perform the jumps on the viaduct. The mayor of Fredonia, Gustavo de Jesús Guzmán, denounced in Noticias Caracol that “it is an entity which does not have the permission” to practice extreme sports.

“At no time was our municipality solicited or consulted. The measures we are going to take are extreme measures, ”added the mayor, and warned that these calls are made“ in private in a group ”via social networks. Andrés confirmed that his sister contacted the company from Facebook.

On Thursday, the company raised the accusations stemming from the tragedy in a series of Instagram posts: “We consider that at the moment the priority is respect for the grief and pain facing their loved ones. For this reason , even today, we had not commented on the events without having had prior and direct communication with his family. ”