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Tourist Who Jumps Into Iguaçu Falls to Retrieve Cell Phone Could Be Fined and Banned

Summary by La Nacion
FOZ DE IGUAZÚ, Brazil.- A tourist threw himself into the waters of the Iguazú Falls to recover a cell phone that had fallen off and generated moments of tension.The man was recorded by other visitors as he hung on the catwalk to reach the device.The episode took place this Saturday near the cataract catwalks, in the middle of an excursion, and the situation was controlled by civilian firefighters of the unit, who are in charge of guarding the tr…

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FOZ DE IGUAZÚ, Brazil.- A tourist threw himself into the waters of the Iguazú Falls to recover a cell phone that had fallen off and generated moments of tension.The man was recorded by other visitors as he hung on the catwalk to reach the device.The episode took place this Saturday near the cataract catwalks, in the middle of an excursion, and the situation was controlled by civilian firefighters of the unit, who are in charge of guarding the tr…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The images, captured from another angle, reveal the dangerous maneuver of the man, who managed to rescue the device and continued the journey normally.

A Brazilian tourist was sanctioned with the prohibition to re-enter the Iguazú National Park after throwing himself into the water in the Falls to recover a cell phone that had fallen off. The episode occurred on the catwalk of the Devil's Gorge, on the Foz do Iguaçu side, and was recorded in videos captured by other visitors. The images showed the instant when the man left the path enabled for the public, crossed the security barriers and advan…

After the intervention of the emergency teams, he was removed and expelled from the park.

Moments of tension were experienced in the Iguazú Falls when a tourist decided to ignore all the security measures and threw himself into the water to try to recover his cell phone. The episode occurred in the Brazilian sector of Foz do Iguaçu, where the man crossed the barriers installed to prevent access to dangerous areas and advanced to an area close to the riverbed. The sequence was recorded in videos recorded by tourists who traveled the c…

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la Nacion broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Monday, June 8, 2026.
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