Five children are dead and three more fighting for life after a jumping castle was blown into the air during end-of-year celebrations at a Tasmanian school. MimiRoseBecker rachbaxter9 9News MORE:
A fifth child has died after a freak jumping castle tragedy during an end-of-year celebration at a primary school in Tasmania.
Police confirmed the fifth death on Thursday night. Four other children were in a critical condition and one was in a serious condition.The grade five and six students were celebrating their last day of term at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, in the state's north-west, when the incident occurred.
"On a day when these children were meant to be celebrating their last day of primary school, instead, we are all mourning their loss," Mr Hine said."Our hearts are breaking for the families and the loved ones, schoolmates, teachers, of these young people who were taken too soon. "I was moved by the tragedy at Hillcrest Primary School and wanted to do something to support the families throughout Christmas," she wrote on a Go Fund Me page that has already raised more than $200,000."All funds will go to the families of the children who were tragically killed and injured too not only support them but provide them with much needed gifts in this time of such sadness.
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