A 26-year-old British man has died after falling from Spain’s tallest bridge throughout an try and climb one in all its pylons.
The person fell from the Castilla-La Mancha bridge, which crosses the River Tagus exterior the city of Talavera de la Reina in central Spain, in response to a press release from the city council, printed Sunday.
Native councillor Macarena Muñoz mentioned he was accompanied by one other British man, aged 24.
“In keeping with what we’ve got been capable of finding out that they had come to Talavera to climb the bridge and create content material for social media,” Muñoz mentioned within the assertion.
She famous that climbing the bridge is “utterly forbidden and we’ve got reiterated a number of occasions that it isn’t allowed below any circumstances,” including that she was saddened by the incident.
The physique of the person, who has not been named by native authorities, has been taken to a funeral dwelling, in response to the assertion.
The cable-stayed bridge, which was accomplished in 2010, is 180 metres (591 ft) tall and its predominant span measures 318 metres (1,043 ft).
The British man is way from the primary individual to die within the pursuit of social media content material lately.
In December 2020, a lady in Australia fell off a cliff to her loss of life whereas posing for a photograph at Boroka Lookout, an overhang by the facet of a cliff at Grampians Nationwide Park, Victoria state, in response to CNN affiliate 9 Information.
And in November 2019 a French vacationer died after falling from a waterfall in Thailand whereas trying to take a selfie.
The 33-year-old man died when he slipped and fell from the Na Mueang 2 waterfall on the Thai island of Koh Samui – the identical spot the place a Spanish vacationer died in a fall in July the identical yr, the AFP information company reported.