22-year-old Israeli tourist dies in Rio de Janeiro after jumping over wall to escape robbery – World

A young Israeli tourist, Alma Bohadana, aged 22, died in the early evening of Monday in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, allegedly while trying to escape a robbery. The young woman jumped from a wall in the Santa Teresa neighborhood, in the city center, and fell from a height of at least 15 meters into a wooded area.

According to information obtained so far by the Rio de Janeiro police, Alma and another foreigner who accompanied her were strolling peacefully along Rua Almirante Alexandrino, in Santa Teresa, shortly before 7 pm local time, 11 pm in Lisbon, when a motorbike that It seemed suspicious to them as she approached them. Terrified of the possibility of being a victim of robbery or something worse, Alma jumped the wall that flanks that traditional street in the neighborhood, probably without realizing the height.

She fell in an area of ​​woods and rocks at one of the access points to Morro do Corcovado and was seriously injured. A resident of the street who had just gotten off the bus on his way home after another day of work and heard calls for help from other people managed to access the place where Alma was and tried to keep her conscious until the firefighters arrived, but the young woman did not survive her injuries.

Alma was traveling alone through Brazil, where she had arrived months before. Employees of a hostel in Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia, where the Israelite stayed for three months, described her as an extremely happy and extroverted person, very curious to know things about Brazil, and emotionally show a painting that Alma , a visual artist, made one of the walls of the establishment.