Two killed, 12 hurt in Chinese theme park slide accident
- Six children among the injured as group of people fall off ride at Children’s Garden in Sichuan province on Labour Day
- Local government says it has detained person ‘responsible for the business’
Two people were killed and 12 injured on Wednesday after falling off a slide at a theme park in southwest China.
The accident happened at the Children’s Garden attraction in Taiping, Sichuan province, on the first day of the Labour Day holiday, the town government said in a statement on social media.
The park had been closed and “the person responsible for the business” had been detained pending an investigation, it said.
The statement did not give details of the people killed, except to say they were both adults. Of the 12 people hurt, six were adults and six children, it said, adding they were being treated in hospital.
A woman who was at the park with her daughter when the accident happened said she thought the ride might have been overcrowded.
“I was on a rope bridge and saw four or five rubber lifebuoys with people on them all crowded together and sliding down,” the woman, who declined to give her name, said.