New Delhi, July 22 -- In a chilling turn of events during a live report, a Brazilian journalist accidentally stepped on the body of a missing 13-year-old girl while covering her disappearance, according to a report by Metro UK.

The journalist, Lenildo Frazão, was reporting from the Mearim River in Bacabal, northeastern Brazil, where the girl, identified only as Raissa, had gone missing while swimming with friends.

To demonstrate the depth and flow of the river, Frazão entered the water mid-report. Moments later, he flinched and abruptly jumped, saying something had brushed against him underwater.

"I think there's something down here at the bottom," he can be heard saying in Portuguese. Visibly shaken, he stepped back and adde...