Pastor hero and wife die trying to save son from drowning during beach trip
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Pastor hero and wife die trying to save 13-year-old son from drowning during beach trip
- Pastor Felisberto Sampaio and his wife Inalda Sampaio died trying to rescue their 13-year-old son on Camaçari beach in Paraíba, Brazil, last Tuesday.
- Ian Sampaio was drowning when his parents jumped into the sea to save him
- The teenager was rescued by local fishermen, who then returned to find the boy’s parents and put them on their boat.
- The parents received CPR by firefighters before they were pronounced dead at the scene.
A Brazilian family’s beach outing ended in tragedy when a shepherd and his wife died after trying to save their 13-year-old son from drowning.
Felisberto Sampaio, 43, and his wife Inalda Sampaio, 42, watched their son Ian Sampaio dive into the water at Camaçari beach in Paraíba last Tuesday.
The couple dove into the ocean to rescue the boy, but were unable to reach him.
Ian was then rescued by a fisherman and another family member, according to the Brazilian outlet UOL. The good Samaritans took the drowning parents into the boat.
Pastor Felisberto Sampaio (center) and his wife Inalda Sampaio (right) died last Tuesday after they tried to rescue their son Ian Sampaio (left) from drowning on a beach in Paraíba, Brazil.
A firefighter performed CPR on Felisberto Sampaio after he and his wife tried to rescue their son from drowning. The couple was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Video footage showed a firefighter desperately trying to save Felisberto’s life by administering CPR as Inalda lay unconscious in the sand.
Both Felisberto and Inalda were pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Felisberto was a pastor for 12 years at the Assembly of God Church in Quixaba, Paraíba.
The family lived in Campina Grande and spent a couple of days in the Paraiban city of Lucena.
The tragic death of the couple was mourned by parishioners, including Leonardo Meneses, pastor of a church that Felisberto and Inalda attended frequently.
‘I know that the circumstances are painful and difficult for us to understand; only eternity will explain all the mysteries of life,’ he said.