British woman, 23, ‘died in bungee jumping accident in Spain’

A British fashion student plunged to her death while bungee jumping from a bridge in Spain as her aunt watched.

The incident occurred at 3pm yesterday at the Tablate Bridge near the mountain village of Lanjaron, a short drive from the city of Granada.

Last month a French woman aged 28 was killed and her boyfriend critically injured following a tandem bungee accident in Audincthun, near Calais.

Tablate Bridge has a drop of 80 metres, with thrill-seekers falling for about 20 metres and swinging underneath.

The Guardia Civil are looking into whether she was bungee jumping on her own or had hired a company, local reports said.

“My daughter is gone and nothing is going to bring her back, but I have spoken to the family and we are all on the same page – we don’t want something like this to happen again”.

A spokesperson for the Guardia Civil, the Spanish police force, said: “The 23-year-old British national made the jump and hit the wall of a smaller bridge and died on the spot”.

They are exploring the possibility that there was miscalculation with rope, a spokesperson for the Guardia Civil said, according to the New York Daily News.

It is believed the woman’s aunt had been watching her take part in the the jump at the time.

Miss De Abreu’s father Bernard Atwell said relatives were in shock at the death of his daughter, who was of South African and Portuguese heritage on her mother’s side.

She had only recently been reunited with her British father, whom she had not seen for 23 years.

He is expected to call a series of witnesses in for questioning after analysing police reports and ordering specialist assessments of what went wrong.

One is a modern bridge from which the bungee jumps are launched, with an ancient Roman bridge underneath.

Lanjaron lies about 35 miles from Granada and is the first town in the western Alpujarras people reach when travelling from the handsome southern Spanish city.