“There’s little or no info I’ve, aside from the truth that she was so extremely lovely and much too younger,” the singer wrote of the younger lady.
The present’s organiser, Time4Fun, mentioned on Instagram that paramedics attended to Benevides after she reported feeling unwell. She was taken to a centre after which to a hospital, the place she died an hour later, the assertion from the Brazilian stay leisure firm mentioned.
Live performance-goers mentioned they weren’t allowed to convey water bottles into the stadium regardless that Rio and most of Brazil have had record-breaking temperatures this week amid a harmful and lasting warmth wave. The daytime excessive in Rio on Friday was 39.1 levels, but it surely felt a lot hotter.
Morin, who lately moved to Rio from Los Angeles, mentioned it “was extraordinarily sizzling” contained in the stadium.
“My hair received so moist from sweat as quickly as I got here in,” she mentioned. “There was some extent at which I needed to examine my respiration to verify I wasn’t going to cross out.”
Morin mentioned she drank loads of water however noticed “a superb quantity of individuals wanting distressed” and others “yelling for water”. She mentioned she was in a position to get water from the sidelines of the world she was standing in, however that water was quite a bit more durable to entry from different components of the stadium, “particularly when you had been involved about shedding your particular place”.
The Christ the Redeemer statue is illuminated with a welcome message for Taylor Swift, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 16.Credit score:
Justice Minister Flávio Dino mentioned on X that the ministry would implement “emergency guidelines” in response to the scenario. He later introduced that “water bottles for private use, in appropriate materials, might be allowed” at live shows and different occasions and that present producers should present free and simply accessible ingesting water.
Earlier than the present, Benevides posted a video of herself on Instagram carrying a Taylor Swift t-shirt and ready in line to enter the stadium whereas looking for shade below an umbrella. Like her, hundreds of followers waited hours within the solar earlier than being allowed inside.
She advised her followers whereas fanning her face that she’d arrived at 11am – the present started round 7:30pm – and was “nonetheless within the mess”.
Benevides’ pal, Daniele Menin, who attended the live performance together with her, advised on-line information web site G1 that her pal handed out initially of the live performance, as Swift carried out her second tune, Merciless Summer season.
“We at all times mentioned that when (Taylor Swift) got here to Brazil we’d discover a solution to go. The ticket was very costly, however we nonetheless discovered a approach”, Menin advised G1.
Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes mentioned on X the “lack of a younger lady’s life … is unacceptable.”
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Whereas authorities are investigating the circumstances of the demise, Paes wrote, the municipality will demand that the present’s manufacturing firm present new water distribution factors, extra brigades and ambulances, and advance entrance to the present by one hour.
Swift had a 3rd Rio present due on Sunday (Monday AEDT).
“I’m not going to have the ability to discuss this from stage as a result of I really feel overwhelmed by grief after I even attempt to discuss it,” Swift wrote. “I wish to say now I really feel this loss deeply and my damaged coronary heart goes out to her household and pals.”
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