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Daily Mail
23-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Horrifying moment TV journalist reporting on missing 13-year-old girl spots something in the water
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 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.
The Sun
17-07-2025
- The Sun
Horrifying moment journalist jumps into river and ‘steps on missing girl's body' – while reporting on her disappearance
THIS is the eerie moment a reporter apparently steps on the body of a missing girl while filming at the scene of her disappearance. Lenildo Frazão was standing in Mearim River in Bacabal, north-eastern Brazil, where the 13-year-old was last seen. He was demonstrating the depth of the water, and the spot where the child had been swimming. Lenildo was wading right into the middle of the river, with water up to his chest, when he suddenly flinched. He immediately jumped up and away from the spot, and let out a gasp. The reporter had felt something brushing against him beneath the surface. He quickly made his way to shallower water, looking back with concern. Visibly shaken, he could be heard telling his team: 'I think there's something down here at the bottom of the water.' He then stepped back, saying: 'No, I'm not going, I'm scared. 'It looked like an arm - could it be her? 'But it might be a fish too, I don't know.' After his report, firefighters resumed the search for the victim on the morning of June 30, with the support of divers. Woman's body pulled from lake in middle of day after emergency crews swooped on scene The schoolgirl's body was found at the exact spot where Lenildo had been filming. However, it could not be confirmed that it was her body he felt when presenting his report. The victim, named only as Raíssa, drowned while cooling off with friends in the river. During his report, Lenildo noted that the current was strong and the depth uneven, with 'holes' in the riverbed. A post-mortem showed no signs of physical trauma, and the cause of death was recorded as accidental drowning. Raíssa was laid to rest on the evening of June 30.
