Couple Fall 80 Feet While Taking Selfie Atop Waterfall -- And Only One Survived
perezhilton.comA couple met a tragic and, for one, deadly fate while touring Bali over the weekend. On Sunday, Giancarlo Zicari, 49, and his girlfriend Ilaria Biagi, 25, set out to visit the Gajah Mas waterfalls in Indonesia above the Villa Gajah Mas.
The Tabanan Police Public Relations Chief Gusti Made Berata detailed the couple’s trajectory in a press release: However, the iron fence did anything BUT that. Related: Skydiver’s Wife Dies In Shocking Accident During Routine Parachute Jump According to local police reports, Giancarlo was attempting to take a selfie with Ilaria with the waterfall in the background when the fence they were leaning on gave out, sending them plummeting over 82 feet down the fall.
And sadly, Giancarlo did not survive the fall. Chief Gusti added: Local outlet La Stampa reported Ilaria miraculously survived the fall and was aided by good samaritan Sokoliuk Viktoria, who was staying at the villa at the time, before being rushed to the Baturiti Health Center in Tabanan.
Giancarlo’s body was recovered and his family is said to have refused an autopsy as they have “accepted the tragedy as an accident.” So awful.
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