One person was killed and several others injured when a roller coaster derailed in Stockholm on Sunday, Swedish TV reported.
Generic photo of police lights– A roller coaster train derailed in Stockholm on Sunday, sending some passengers plunging to the ground in an amusement park accident that left one dead and nine injured, police and park officials said.
“The front of the train partly derailed and stopped on the track at a height of between 6 and 8 meters ,” park chief executive Jan Eriksson said. “A total of 14 people were on board, of which one person has died and several are injured.” Witness Ziba Assadi told Swedish broadcaster TV4 that she was standing just below the Jetline roller coaster when she saw the wheel assembly of one of the cars crashing to the ground.Witnesses said two or three people fell out of the car, one of whom managed to cling to the track. Photos from the scene showed a man sitting on a beam below the stopped train.
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