Ferris Wheel (Picture: Pixabay, Free Public Use)
LEIPZIG, DE (CelebrityAccess) – Not less than 23 individuals have been injured when two gondolas on a Ferris wheel caught fireplace throughout the Highfield Music Competition at Lake Strömthal, close to Leipzig, on Saturday (August seventeenth), in accordance with the German information company dpa.
Native police reported that the fireplace started in one of many Ferris wheel’s gondolas and shortly unfold to a second. The Ferris wheel operator confirmed that no passengers have been contained in the gondola the place the fireplace initially broke out.
An announcement from Saxony police detailed that 65 individuals acquired medical care on-site, with 16 of them transported to hospitals. Amongst these hospitalized, 4 sustained burn accidents, and one particular person was damage in a fall. Fortuitously, not one of the accidents have been thought-about life-threatening.
Police have launched an investigation into the reason for the fireplace. In an replace posted to social media on Sunday (August 18th), they said, “After the fireplace, investigators have been deployed, and an preliminary evaluation was made. By means unknown, the fabric beneath the Ferris wheel caught fireplace. Because of this, the fireplace unfold to a gondola. The investigation continues to be ongoing.”