Taylor Swift Fan’s Cause of Death Revealed After Rio De Janeiro Show – Billboard

Heat exhaustion is the trigger of dying of a Brazilian fan who attended a live performance of singer Taylor Swift in November, a forensics report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday reveals.

Ana Clara Benevides, 23, handed out throughout Swift’s second track within the Nov. 17 live performance in Rio de Janeiro, “Cruel Summer,” and died hours later at a neighborhood hospital. Temperatures within the metropolis that day have been at about 40 levels Celsius (105 Fahrenheit).

Fans lined up for hours earlier than the present, and plenty of accused organizers of failing to ship sufficient water provides for the greater than 60,000 attending the live performance on the Nilton Santos Stadium. They mentioned they weren’t allowed to take their very own water into the stadium.

The report by Rio’s Forensic Medical Institute mentioned Benevides’ warmth publicity led to a cardiorrespiratory arrest. It additionally mentioned she didn’t have preexisting situations or substance abuse that would have led to her dying.

The forensics skilled who analyzed her physique mentioned within the doc she had “serious compromise of her lungs and sudden death” because of the warmth.

One of Benevides’ buddies, who additionally attended the live performance, instructed native media shops in November they’d been given water whereas ready to enter the stadium.

Organizers T4F mentioned in an announcement the corporate “followed the best practices,” complied with “every demand from authorities” and “distributed thousands of bottles of water” to followers. TF4 additionally denied it didn’t permit individuals to carry their very own water to the live performance.

TF4 additionally mentioned Benevides “was promptly cared for by members of a rescue team and sent (to the hospital) in an intensive-care unit ambulance.”

“In our 40 years in the business, this company had never registered a tragic episode” like Benevides’ dying attributable to excessive warmth, T4F mentioned.

The workplace of Rio’s public prosecutor has opened a legal investigation. Rio police mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday that after the forensics report is analyzed “representatives of the company organizing the event will be called to testify.”

Benevides’ dying shook many in Brazil. She had taken her first flight to journey from the nation’s center-west area to see her favourite singer.

In an announcement posted on Instagram after the dying, Swift mentioned the case had left her with a “shattered heart.”

Benevides’s father, José Weiny Machado, instructed information web site G1 he “never doubted the cause of death was the heat.”