Groom bleeds to death after freak accident on wedding day
A groom bled to death on his wedding day after a freak accident when he tripped and fell on a beer glass.
Mr Maciel tripped and fell whilst having an empty beer glass in his pocket Photo: ALAMY
By Donna Bowater, Rio de Janeiro
4:26PM GMT 20 Nov 2012
Fabio Jefferson Maciel, 33, died at his beachfront wedding reception in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hours after marrying fiancee Geise Guimaraes.
About 200 guests were present as the couple tied the knot in a church ceremony before the reception at a club near the beach.
Mr Maciel was playing with a young bridesmaid at about 2am on Monday morning when he tripped and fell.
A beer glass he had put in his trouser pocket broke and pierced his femoral vein - a major artery in the top of the leg - causing rapid and irretrievable blood loss.
Mr Maciel, a Brazilian navy sergeant, died while being rushed to hospital in the Ilha do Governador area of the city.
A friend of the couple said Mr Maciel's widow was in tears and could not believe her husband was gone.
Fabiana Sena, 31, told a newspaper: "She just cries and says 'I want my husband back'. Nobody can believe what happened, and even less the way it happened."
Mr Maciel is said to have been planning the perfect wedding for months and had recently finished building a house for him and his new wife.
His body is due to be flown back to his hometown of Manaus, in the north of Brazil. His funeral will be on Wednesday, just three days after his wedding.
