Brave Bystanders Save Women Swept Up in Powerful Floodwater, on Video
Brazil
Good Samaritans Grab Women Swept Away in Flood
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Two women were swept off their feet by a pair of Good Samaritans after a flood in Brazil did the same to them … with bystanders dashing through the raging waters to pull them.
Daniela Gonçalves Silva, 44, and Gabriela de Jesus Lima, 23, were standing outside Lima’s shop in Montes Claros — a city in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais — Tuesday when the rain in the area intensified, causing a flood that carried them down the street.
In the clip, you can see the two women sliding and tumbling down the block, along with a motor scooter … unable to hold on to anything to brace themselves against the storm’s onslaught.
Several men are huddled together underneath a doorframe … and, they bolt into the street to stop the two women from going any farther and potentially being injured.
After a struggle, the dudes are able to pull them out and lay the ladies down on the sidewalk. Renato Aquino Rocha — one of the heroic bystanders — says he didn’t think about the danger … he just acted on instinct.
Gabriela — who was later treated at the hospital for swallowing water contaminated by sewage — later said, “I thought I was going to die. They risked their lives and saved the two of us.”