A curler coaster rupture at a Legoland theme park in southern Germany injured 31 folks on Thursday, per native authorities.
Two trains smashed into each other on the ‘Feuerdrache’ – or Fire Dragon – stride on the amusement park in Guenzburg, north west of Munich in Bavaria, per The Solar.
German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitiung stories that one in all the trains braked without note in the operate home, causing the next put together to collide into essentially the main put together.
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“One put together that stopped correctly did no longer cease in the home of the operate where folks in total earn on or off,” a Legoland spokeswoman educated German recordsdata channel RTL.
“And as a consequence the 2d put together drove up.
“We first needed to rescue the passengers from essentially the main put together and then pull the 2d forward to earn to the different injured,” added a police spokesman.
Rescue helicopters are viewed in a discipline shut to Legoland. Credit: GettyThe clarification for the incident is restful unknown. Credit: Getty Rescue staff stand Legoland. Credit: GettyOne particular person suffered severe nonetheless no longer existence-threatening injuries and 15 folks were taken to sanatorium with light injuries after the incident, a police spokesperson educated CNN.
The clarification for the rupture became no longer immediately sure, nonetheless investigators are working on the rupture scene, the spokesperson added.
The theme park is owned by Merlin Entertainments, which also operates a chain of sights in Australia, alongside side Legoland Discovery Centre in Melbourne, Sydney Tower Secret agent, Wild Life Sydney Zoo and the Illawarra and Otway Flee sights.
The incident became the 2d most up-to-date curler coaster accident in the nation.
On Saturday, a 57-year-aged girl died when she fell out of a curler coaster car in the Rhineland-Palatinate village of Klotten, native police educated CNN.
Investigators have but to portray their findings on the clarification for the fatal accident.