Video captures moment German theme park attraction collapses, injuring 7 – National | 24CA News

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Published 21.08.2023
Video captures moment German theme park attraction collapses, injuring 7 – National | 24CA News

Seven individuals had been left injured when an attraction at Germany’s greatest theme park got here tumbling down final week, police stated.

The accident at Europa-Park in Rust, a city close to the French and Swiss borders, was captured in a surprising video displaying diving platforms and acrobats plummeting into the pool beneath.

Five performers, out of a gaggle of 10, had been injured within the construction collapse, in addition to two guests. Four performers had been hospitalized and two had critical sufficient accidents that they needed to be stored in a single day, German broadcaster SWR reported.

The names of the victims weren’t launched, however the youngest injured performer was an 18-year-old girl. The remainder of the injured performers are ages 22, 24, 29 and 50, based on SWR. The two guests among the many casualties had been solely barely injured.

The park says that the accident occurred when one of many cell swimming pools concerned within the high-diving “Return of the Pirates” present ruptured. Various scaffolding and diving towers as much as 25 metres tall had been hooked up to the pool’s partitions, which collapsed when the pool broke open and water escaped.

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Water from the pool flowed right into a water journey attraction referred to as Atlantica SuperSplash.

Europa-Park, and the Atlantica SuperSplash journey, reopened on Tuesday — although the now-demolished attraction stays closed.

A spokesperson for the park instructed SWR that the “high diving show would only have run for three more weeks, so the guest performance will now end early.”

Europa-Park is a well-liked vacationer attraction that drew greater than 6 million guests final 12 months, largely from Germany, France and Switzerland.

It has areas with themes primarily based on completely different European nations, and three primarily based on fantasy settings. The park additionally hosts conferences and is a well-liked venue for occasions and tv productions.

In June, a big hearth broke out at Europa-Park on the Yomi Magical World of Diamonds attraction, prompting a park-wide evacuation. Two firefighters had been barely injured however no guests had been harmed in that incident.

— with information from The Associated Press

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