A journalist reporting on the disappearance of a girl was horrified after he investigated something in the water to find the submerged body of the missing teenager.
Brazilian reporter Lenildo Frazão and a TV crew visited the Mearim River, in the country’s northeastern city of Bacabal, on June 30 to film a story about 13-year-old Raíssa, who disappeared while bathing with her friends on a day earlier.
Frazão was delivering a piece to camera when he spotted something in the river. He took off his shoes and waded in up to his chest when he suddenly felt something submerged underwater.
‘I think there is something at the bottom of the water,’ he said.
The visibly shaken reporter lunged forward and spit out water before he made his way to a shallow area.
Frazão waited a moment before he went back to the part of the river where he came across Raíssa’s body.
He then lowered his arm to see if he could find it.
‘It looked like one arm,’ he said.
Lenildo Frazão, a journalist with TV, in Bacabal, Brazil went with a crew to the Mearim River to film a story on June 30 about 13-year-old Raíssa, who disappeared while bathing with her friends a day earlier. Frazão was wading through the river and stopped when he stumbled upon the teen’s body
Lenildo Frazão lost his balance and was clearly shaken after he his feet touched the body of the 13-year-old missing girl in the Mearim River while filming a segment f
Fire department divers located the body of 13-year-old Raíssa on June 30, a day after she drowned in the Mearim River in Bacabal, a city in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão
He flinched for a moment and waded through the river some more.
‘My God from heaven,’ Frazão said. ‘Where’s the girl’s body. It was right here like this.’
The Maranhão Military Fire Department was alerted and a team drivers searched the Mearim River and recovered Raíssa’s body on the morning of June 30.
According to local outlets, Raíssa and a group of friends were in the river together when she suddenly began to struggle to stay afloat and screamed for help.
The group was unable to rescue the teenager and ran to seek assistance from residents, who were unable to locate her.
