A woman bled to death after cutting open her jugular vein with a wine glass as she celebrated Brazil’s World Cup victory. Tamra Maiochi suffered the freak accident as the referee blew the whistle after the game on Wednesday, which sent Neymar and co through to the knock-out stages in Russia. The 30-year-old had been watching the crucial match with friends at a house in Itatiba, in Brazil’s southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

According to police, Ms Maiochi had been sitting down on a sofa holding her mobile phone in one hand and sipping wine from a crystal glass in the other. As she stood up with the rest of the group up to celebrate Brazil’s win at the end of the game, she lost her balance, reaching out to a coffee table to stop herself from falling. But she slipped and fell onto the wine glass, which shattered into pieces which penetrated her neck, severing her jugular vein. Friends tried to stop the blood wrapping towels around her neck but by the time emergency services arrived at the house she was dead.