RIO DE JANEIRO — A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died on the singer’s Eras Tour live performance in Rio de Janeiro Friday night time, in keeping with a press release from the present’s organizers in Brazil.
Whereas the reason for loss of life for Ana Clara Benevides Machado has not been introduced, media reported that followers weren’t allowed to take water into the stadium regardless of hovering temperatures, and town’s mayor has demanded adjustments earlier than Swift’s last two reveals.
In a handwritten word shared on her social media, Swift mentioned she had a “shattered coronary heart.”
“There’s little or no info I’ve apart from the truth that she was so extremely lovely and much too younger,” the singer wrote.
The present’s organizers, Time4Fun, mentioned on Instagram that Benevides was attended by paramedics after feeling unwell. She was taken to the stadium’s first assist middle, then to a hospital, the place she died an hour later, the assertion learn.
A number of native media reported that water bottles weren’t allowed contained in the Nilton Santos Olympic stadium, despite the fact that Rio and most of Brazil have had record-breaking temperatures this week, amid a harmful and lasting warmth wave, and followers had been queuing for a number of hours within the solar.
Justice Minister Flávio Dino mentioned on X that the ministry will implement “emergency guidelines” relating to entry to water at reveals and different public occasions.”
On-line information web site G1 reported that one among Benevides’ associates, who attended the live performance along with her, mentioned her buddy handed out at the start of the live performance, as Swift carried out her second tune, “Merciless Summer time.”
A photograph of the 2 associates present them sporting Taylor Swift T-shirts contained in the stadium.
“We at all times mentioned that when (Taylor Swift) got here to Brazil we might discover a technique to go. The ticket was very costly, however we nonetheless discovered a approach”, she informed G1 shortly after her buddy’s loss of life.
Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes mentioned on X the “lack of a younger lady’s life … is unacceptable.”
Whereas authorities are investigating the circumstances of the loss of life, Paes wrote, the municipality will demand Saturday 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 has two extra reveals in Rio on Saturday and Sunday.
“I am 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,” she wrote. “I need to say now I really feel this loss deeply and my damaged coronary heart goes out to her household and associates.”