© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Taylor Swift attends a premiere for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A younger Brazilian fan of U.S. singer Taylor Swift died in Rio de Janeiro on Friday evening after falling ailing contained in the sweltering stadium the place the celebrity’s live performance was held, amid a record-breaking heat-wave throughout giant swathes of Brazil.
Ana Clara Benevides, 23, grew to become unwell on the Nilton Santos stadium, occasion organizer T4F wrote on Instagram. It stated she was promptly attended to by medical employees, after which taken to an on-site medical station, earlier than being transferred to the Salgado Filho Hospital, the place she died.
Some 60,000 followers had gathered for Swift’s sell-out live performance on the stadium, which is positioned removed from Rio’s breezy picture-postcard seashores in a neighborhood within the north of the town.
The present happened on the identical day that Rio recorded its highest ever studying of the so-called warmth index, which mixes temperature and humidity, at 59.3 levels Celsius.
Swift, who’s in Brazil for six reveals as a part of The Eras Tour, expressed her sorrow and supplied condolences to Benevides’ household and buddies.
“I’m not going to able to speak about this from the stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it,” she wrote on Instagram. “This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.”
Swift stated Benevides died “before my show” however Benevides’ buddies instructed native media that she grew to become ailing after the live performance started.
Justice Minister Flavio Dino known as for an investigation on Saturday after unconfirmed stories of an absence of ingesting water for the viewers within the stadium.
“The Consumer Protection Code requires that services be safe and suitable for HEALTH. It is unacceptable for people to suffer, faint, and even die due to a lack of access to water,” he wrote on X, previously Twitter.
On Thursday, Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue welcomed Swift to city forward of her first set of live shows. The long-lasting statue, recognized for its spread-open arms, donned a white, projected “Welcome to Brazil” T-shirt to greet the singer.
Through the live performance, a number of followers fell ailing, prompting Swift to interrupt the efficiency and request that the manufacturing crew present water for a bunch in want, based on movies from the present.
Warmth exhaustion, which may embody dizziness, complications, shaking and thirst, isn’t normally severe, offering the individual cools down inside half-hour.
The extra severe model is heat-stroke, when the physique’s core temperature goes above 105 levels Fahrenheit (40.6 levels Celsius). It’s a medical emergency and might result in long-term organ injury and demise.
