A tragic incident unfolded in Brazil on Christmas Eve, as a mother of two passed away following a month-long battle in a coma. The coma resulted from a horrifying incident where she was struck and dragged by a car driven by a man she had briefly dated.

Taynara Souza Santos, aged 31, succumbed to her injuries at the Hospital das Clinicas in São Paulo on the evening of December 24. Her ordeal began on November 29, when she was hit by a Volkswagen Golf.

The alleged driver, 26-year-old Douglas Alves da Silva, reportedly dragged Santos for several hundred feet, causing severe injuries that led to the amputation of her legs and ultimately left her in a coma for almost a month.

Da Silva was detained and has been facing charges of attempted femicide. His arrest took place on November 30, after an incident where he was shot while allegedly attempting to grab an officer’s weapon.

According to reports from CNN Brasil, Santos and Silva were acquaintances who had met several times before the tragic event.

Graphic footage viewed by the Daily Mail showed the mother walking out of a bar at 6am moments before the tragedy.

Santos can be seen outside wearing a black dress with a man before stepping out of frame.

About 30 seconds later, the black Volkswagen can be seen striking the mother as she bashed on to the hood and then falls onto the road.

Taynara Souza Santos, 31, died after being in a coma for nearly a month caused by being struck and dragged by a car 

Douglas Alves da Silva, 26, allegedly hit and dragged Santos for hundreds of feet. The alleged driver reportedly had a brief relationship with the mother of two

She ends up lying in front of the front right tire before the car begins to accelerate, running her over and then trapping her underneath the vehicle.

The car continues to drive forward with the victim still underneath the vehicle. A few moments later, a man could be seen chasing and waving to get others’ attention.

The footage then cuts to another angle of the mother being dragged down the road with what appears to be half her body hanging from the rear.

The second angle of footage shows her being dragged for at least 10 seconds.

A passenger who was in the car that struck the mother wrote in a statement to police that he repeatedly asked Silva to stop the vehicle and also warned the driver that the mother was under the car, as cited by CNN.

The mother underwent several surgeries and needed her legs to be amputated

Letícia Conceição, a friend of Santos, claimed that the suspect was waiting outside the bar after he went inside and punched a man ‘out of jealousy’, according to G1.

After Santos had allegedly argued with Silva, who then waited outside, before he allegedly got inside his car and struck her.

Santos underwent several surgeries all over her body, which included an amputation in the thigh area as well as a tracheostomy. While she did awake from the coma at one point, her condition worsened following her last surgery, according to CBN.

She died, leaving behind a seven-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son.

‘My only feeling towards him is anger,’ Santos’ sister, Tatiana Souza Santos, told UOL. 

‘What he did makes no sense at all. He has no right to do this to anyone.’

Santos’s mother, Lucia, posted to Instagram following her daughter’s death: ‘Hello, my loved ones, good night. It is with great sorrow that I have to announce that our ‘little warrior’ Tay has left us.’

‘She has passed away, and I thank you for all the messages of prayer, affection, and love that you have shown me and my daughter. She has just left this cruel world and is with God. It is an enormous pain, but the suffering is over, and now it is time to ask for justice.’

The investigation of attempted femicide is expected to be updated following the mother’s death.