Marehemu Maria Pantazopoulos, 30 aliyefariki baada ya kuteleza mtoni akifanya photo shooting ya gauni lake la harusi |
Gauni la harusi na mchuchumio vikionekana kuelea muda mfupi baada ya Maria kuzama mtoni |
Mpiga picha Louis Pagakis aliykuwa anampiga picha Maria na nguo yake ya harusi, muda mfupi tu baada ya kuzama na kujaribu kumuokoa bila mafanikio yoyote. |
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Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, fell into river after her wedding dress got wet
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She was posing in her gown for pictures after getting married in June
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Body found two and a half hours later by a diver after police and firefighters
scoured the area where she fell near Dorwin Falls, Canada
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Family friend: Ms Pantazopoulos said 'I want to have great pictures and
memories of me in my wedding dress'
Lying on rocks, these are the bridal gown and high-heeled shoes worn by a newlywed woman who was killed when she fell into a river while posing for photographs.
Real
estate agent Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, drowned after her dress got wet and she
was dragged into the river near a 'violently' rushing waterfall in Canada.
Friends
said she had been taking part in an increasingly popular ritual called 'Trash
the Dress', in which brides pose for pictures while playfully destroying their
wedding gowns.
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Ms
Pantazopoulos slipped and fell into the Ouareau River near Dorwin Falls, north
of Montreal, on Friday afternoon. Her body was found about two and a half hours
later.
The
newly-wed yelled 'I'm slipping, I'm slipping, I'm slipping,' before falling off
the rock she was perched on for her wedding pictures, according to CBC.
Ms
Pantazopoulos had commissioned the shoot following her June 9 wedding.
Family
friend Leeza Pousoulidis said: 'She’s a really fun girl, and she just didn’t
want her wedding dress sitting in a box in the closet.
'She said
"I want to have fun with my wedding dress. I want to have great pictures
and memories of me in my wedding dress."'
Ms
Pousoulidis said her friend was 'a strong, tough girl'.
'She was
very petite, but she was strong in character and in physical strength as well,'
Ms Pousoulidis told the Montreal Gazette.
'She was
very happy and caring. She had a big heart.'
Ms
Pantazopoulos slipped while she was being photographed by Louis Pagakis, who
told CTV Montreal that he did everything he could to save her.
'She had
her wedding dress on and she said, "take some pictures of me while I swim
a little bit in the lake,"' he said.
'She went
in and her dress got heavy, I tried everything I could to save her.'
Quebec
provincial police spokesman Sgt. Ronald McInnis described the site as being
elevated and rocky, with water 'violently' rushing below.
'She was
doing the photo shoot in about six inches or one foot of water when part of her
wedding dress got soaked and became extremely heavy,' Mr McInnis told
MailOnline.
'She started
slipping and falling down when the photographer grabbed her but she was too
heavy that he couldn't pull her from the edge.
'Another
person tried to grab her but also was unable to save her from falling into the
river.'
Mr
McInnis said Ms Pantazopoulos, from Laval, a small Island north of Montreal,
was found 100 feet from where she fell by a private diver who knows the river
and volunteered to help with the search.
The diver
pulled the young woman’s body from an area of the river which was 20 feet deep.
'She had
sunk to the bottom,' Mr McInnis said.
Two
witnesses, believed to be the photographer and an assistant, were hospitalised
for extreme shock.
Mr
McInnis said the bride's husband was not present for the photo-shoot and
neither were any family members.
However,
her cousins and her brother went to the site when they heard that she had
fallen.
'It's
horrible,' Mr McInnis said. 'This is the first time I've heard of a story like
that. I told my partner, this is a story that is going to go all around the
world.'
Ms
Pantazopoulos wanted the fun photos taken at the falls, perched on the rocks in
her gown, Marco Michaud, a colleague of the photographer taking the pictures
told CBC.
She chose
the beautiful site, located near the small city of Rawdon, as the backdrop.
Ms
Pantazopoulos's family have declined to speak to the media.
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