Russian acrobat fights for her life after trapeze act goes wrong

A Russian acrobat is fighting for her life after her trapeze act in Barnaul, Siberia, went wrong last Thursday. Maria Smetanova (23) plunged almost five meters without a safety net. She landed on her head in the fall, after which she lay motionless. Attention: the hard impact against the ground has been cut out in the video below, but the images can still be experienced as shocking.

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