Tourists trapped for hours in flying-carousel ride in China
Firefighters were called to amusement park during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday
Tourists were left hanging in mid-air for two hours waiting to be rescued, after an amusement-park ride broke down in eastern China on Monday afternoon, during the Dragon Boat Festival public holiday.
The flying-carousel ride left 23 people stranded, including children, when it stopped working at Ganglong Lehui theme park in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.
No casualties were reported, according to a Weibo post by the Public Security Bureau-run Shaanxi Internet Police.
The park called firefighters after its hour-long efforts to free the visitors failed.
A video by Beijing News showed the site surrounded by police, while two cranes lifted people, one-by-one, from the ride to the ground.
“We received a call at 1.54 and were there in seven or eight minutes,” said Cao Yifei, head of Suzhou’s Wuzhong district firefighters.
