THIS is the horrific moment a girl is electrocuted in a massive shower of sparks and catapulted backwards in front of her shocked family.
A shocking video has emerged showing Nikolly Gabriela de Sousa, a 7-year-old girl in Brazil, experiencing a near-fatal electric shock while playing with a young boy at a family dinner.
The video shows the innocent gesture that leads to her being tossed back onto the ground motionless.
She appears to be raising a stick with flashing lights over her head, as if she were fishing a line.
There is suddenly an explosion of sparks as the stick appears to come in contact with a live wire next to the metal balcony.
After being electrocuted, little Nikolly can be seen falling to the ground as distressed adults rush to her side.
Her father Carlos Roberto de Sousa said: “It’s a miracle that she not only survived but is here without any after-effects.”
She suffered minor injuries to her hands and legs.
She was discharged from hospital the same evening after a medical checkup.
Concerns had been raised by local residents about the dangerous proximity of the electrical wiring to the building, with requests for an inspection by the energy company being made two years earlier, as Carlos mentioned.
But he said that the company in question took no action.
An additional request was made on February 27, three days after the incident involving Carlos’ daughter, but no inquest has reportedly been made.
Equatorial Para, the energy company, expressed regret over the incident stating that they would require special authorization to relocate the power lines or move the electrical grid to a safer distance.
The company blamed the incident on “the conductive material present in the child’s toy, which, upon coming into contact with the electrical network, caused a short circuit.”
Attached to Nikolly’s flashing stick was a balloon, which she removed, leaving the toy with a hanging string, Carlos explained.
Nikolly says that she does not remember the incident: “I felt weak at the time and I don’t remember anything else. I don’t even remember falling, I don’t even remember if I felt pain. I’m really fine.”
This comes as a Michelin-listed chef recently had his arm amputated after being electrocuted at work in Birmingham, England.
Matt Davies, 56, said his arm was “blown to pieces” during a freak accident while he was preparing for lunch service in a restaurant in Birmingham.
Another man in Sheffield was electrocuted by his own son in a wrestling match, known as a “death match”.
Competitors often use various kinds of lethal weapons, such as steel chairs, wooden tables, barbed-wire-wrapped bats, thumb tucks and fire.
