The Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters were mobilised at around 9 am this morning, as passers-by became worried that a young man who was sitting on the edge of the Pináculo Viewpoint disappeared from sight. A team of twelve, comprising of PSP and Civil Protection agents were at the scene but were…
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A woman's body was found this afternoon under the Ribeira de João Gomes bridge, Funchal.
On Saturday night, Public Security Police (PSP) agents and an ambulance were called out to the Pinnacle miradouro in São Gonçalo to prevent a possible suicide.
The two people who were found dead in a ravine and in the sea in Porto Santo, are a German couple aged 54 and 55 years-old. A police source revealed to local newspaper, JM, that the victims had been living on the island for approximately two years, and were rarely seen out and about.
Yesterday, several operatives from the Porto Santo Volunteer Firefighters were involved in a complex mountain rescue and relief operation.
The body of the man who fell yesterday 250 metres from Miradouro do Pináculo was retrieved from the sea early this morning, in a rescue mission that included 17 officers from the Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters (BVM) Rescue Team and five support vehicles.
The Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters were called out this morning to locate a body underneath the Ribeira de João Gomes bridge.
Eye witness accounts state, that the behaviour of the man who jumped from the Ribeiro Seco Bridge, Funchal, this afternoon, changed moments before the tragedy happened.
A 34-year-old man tried to jump off a bridge on Estrada Gonçalves Zarco, in Câmara de Lobos, a few metres from "Nico Burguer's,' on Wednesday evening, but was prevented from doing so by the Public Security Police (PSP).
The Regional Command of Madeira reported that yesterday the 23rd of March, at 12:37 pm, PSP officers prevented a young man from committing suicide in Campanário.
A man, whose age could not be ascertained, died this afternoon in the Virtudes area in Funchal. As far as is possible to ascertain, the man shot himself in the head in a car park near a block of apartments.
An employee of a well-known restaurant located the Old Town of Funchal barricaded himself inside today as a result of his employers’s continuous failure to pay him. A situation that has been ongoing since March this year.