He protected it until the end: a man died water-dragged after refusing to let go of his bicycle

"Loose the bicycle", "it's going to go wrong" and "oh my God" are the horror cries that are heard in the shocking video that remained of the recording of the disappearance of a man in Brazil following the floods for trying to protect his bicycle.

The witnesses of the event tried to warn Marcelo da Silva, 43, to get rid of his means of transport and protect his life, in the middle of the violent pbadage of water. floods that hit the weekend at São Bernado do Campo, a suburb of Sao Paulo.

In the video, which reproduces the English Daily Mail newspaper, it is possible to observe how the force of the water causes a few meters up to the man who refuses to let go of his bicycle. Later, he manages to badert himself until disappearing in the flood.

Human Chain

Faced with the desperation of what they saw, the witnesses tried to form a human chain to save da Silva, but they could not stop it .

One of the unsuccessful rescue efforts, a butcher of the area, told the Brazilian TV Glovo TV that "e the cyclist could only hold the post for a few seconds because of the current too strong and He's gone. "

" We formed a human chain to try to catch him. "The guy on the front managed to catch him for a few seconds, but did not could not hold him back. "

" We could see his head tremble. Unfortunately, there was no way to get him out, they all cried because we could not save him. "

Finally, despite the fact that firefighters came to attend the emergency, they also failed to save him.to save him and the lifeless body of a teenager's father was found on next day by the rescuers.