3 Brazilian men charged after woman tossed from bridge without safety rope

Three men face potential charges after a 21-year-old woman died when rope-jumping instructors allegedly launched her from a bridge without attaching the safety ropes meant to stop her fall, authorities said.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, a 21-year-old student, died Saturday during a rope-jumping event at an abandoned bridge about 90 miles northwest of São Paulo, Brazil.

Police investigator Andrea Levy told reporters Monday that the three instructors involved in the jump acknowledged...