{"id":475800,"date":"2025-07-21T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/journalist-accidentally-steps-on-a-girls-body-while-reporting-her-disappearance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:37:18","slug":"journalist-accidentally-steps-on-a-girls-body-while-reporting-her-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/journalist-accidentally-steps-on-a-girls-body-while-reporting-her-disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist accidentally steps on a girl’s body while reporting her disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"The Brazilian journalist Lenildo Fraz\u00e3o<\/strong> experienced a moment of horror on June 30th when, unintentionally, he discovered the lifeless body of Ra\u00edssa<\/strong>, a 13-year-old girl. The minor had been reported missing after drowning in the Mearim River, in the town of Bacabal, state of Maranh\u00e3o, in northeastern Brazil.\n\nAccording to the Brazilian press<\/a>, Fraz\u00e3o was reporting on the conditions of the river where Ra\u00edssa was last seen while bathing with friends. When the communicator was recording the images for television, he felt something unusual under the water<\/strong>.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Rain in Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n“I think there’s something down here. It looked like an arm. Could it be her?<\/strong>“, the reporter expressed, shocked, to his recording team. The video of the moment went viral on social media and shows Fraz\u00e3o just as he makes contact with the girl’s body and immediately backs away and says: “No, I’m not going, I’m scared.”\n\n\n

Faced with the disturbing discovery, the reporter’s team immediately alerted the authorities. The Fire Department resumed the search with the support of divers<\/strong> and, after rescuing the body, confirmed that it was unfortunately Ra\u00edssa. Her last name was not revealed out of respect for the family.<\/p>\n\n\nFollowing the rescue, the body was handed over to the Civil Police and sent to the Legal Medical Institute (IML). The preliminary investigation indicated that the girl’s death was due to accidental drowning<\/strong>, as no signs of violence were found. The burial of the minor, whose tragic death shocked Bacabal, took place on the same June 30th.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brazilian journalist Lenildo Fraz\u00e3o experienced a moment of horror on June 30th when, unintentionally, he discovered the lifeless body of Ra\u00edssa, a 13-year-old girl. The minor had been reported missing after drowning in the Mearim River, in the town of Bacabal, state of Maranh\u00e3o, in northeastern Brazil. According to the Brazilian press, Fraz\u00e3o was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":475801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZMc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-21-203318.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-21-203318.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}