Couple leaps to their death with baby son in desperate bid to escape apartment inferno in front of horrified onlookers

A COUPLE jumped to their deaths while clutching their baby son in a desperate attempt to escape their burning flat.

The pair jumped from their seventh-floor flat in Brazil while holding their two-month-old son in front of horrified onlookers.

Luiz Evaldo Lima, Graciane Rosa de Oliveira, and baby Léo Oliveira de Lima died on Tuesday.

Felipe Ferreira, who lives in the neighbouring building, said: “We saw a couple with a child at the seventh-floor window.

“We started shouting for them not to jump, but the flames quickly engulfed them.

“In the end, they jumped and died instantly.”

Capt Fábio José Rodrigues of the Goiás Fire Department told local media: “They died out of desperation.”

A witness said the flames spread “very quickly and violently”.

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