The Gentleman Report
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A 26-year-old British guy has died after falling from Spain’s tallest bridge right through an try to climb certainly one of its pylons.
The person fell from the Castilla-Los angeles Mancha bridge, which crosses the River Tagus out of doors the city of Talavera de los angeles Reina in central Spain, consistent with a commentary from the city council, revealed Sunday.
Native councillor Macarena Muñoz stated he was once accompanied by means of any other British guy, elderly 24.
“Consistent with what now we have been in a position to determine that they had come to Talavera to climb the bridge and create content material for social media,” Muñoz stated within the commentary.
She famous that hiking the bridge is “totally forbidden and now we have reiterated a couple of instances that it’s not allowed underneath any cases,” including that she was once saddened by means of the incident.
The frame of the person, who has no longer been named by means of native government, has been taken to a funeral house, consistent with the commentary.
The cable-stayed bridge, which was once finished in 2010, is 180 meters (591 ft) tall and its primary span measures 318 meters (1,043 ft).
The British guy is a ways from the primary particular person to die within the pursuit of social media content material lately.
In December 2020, a girl in Australia fell off a cliff to her demise whilst posing for a photograph at Boroka Lookout, an overhang by means of the aspect of a cliff at Grampians Nationwide Park, Victoria state, consistent with The Gentleman Report associate 9 Information.
And in November 2019 a French vacationer died after falling from a waterfall in Thailand whilst making an attempt to take a selfie.
The 33-year-old guy died when he slipped and fell from the Na Mueang 2 waterfall at the Thai island of Koh Samui – the similar spot the place a Spanish vacationer died in a fall in July the similar 12 months, the AFP information company reported.
