A police investigation has been launched after a woman died on a bus with 26 iPhones glued to her body. The woman, 20, died after she fell ill on the vehicle travelling to the major Brazilian city of São Paulo.
Brazil’s military police said the woman was found with 26 iPhones glued to her. She was treated on the bus by the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU), where she was found awake but suffering from shortness of breath. Shortly after, she displayed symptoms that were consistent with a post-seizure seizure and respiratory distress. She then went into cardiac arrest, and she stopped breathing. Paramedics tried to revive her for around 45 minutes, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
It was while medical assistance was being administered that it was discovered that she had several packages, in which the phones were found, attached to her. No drugs were found by a police sniffer dog, after experts from the ‘Scientific Police’ and the Civil Police were called to investigate.
However, several bottles of alcohol were found in the woman’s luggage, which was then seized.
“The Paraná Civil Police are investigating the case and awaiting the conclusion of forensic reports to clarify the cause of death,” police said, according to Brazilian news outlet Globo. “According to preliminary information, the woman, who was alone, was traveling from Foz do Iguaçu to São Paulo. The 26 cell phones that were glued to her body were seized and sent to the Federal Revenue Service.”
The identity of the woman has not been released by authorities. An investigation remains ongoing.
The bus has stopped at a restaurant on a major road in Guarupuava in Brazil’s central region of Paraná.
This latest incident comes after a British teenager died in a fall at a four-star hotel just after midnight in Ibiza on Monday, July 21. Police said the fall “could be accidental based on the early information obtained from cameras”, but it would need to conduct a full investigation. Following the incident, the popular hotel, Ibiza Rocks, has suspended its events.
