Other children are badly injured after wind blew the castle into the air, causing them to fall 10m.
Two children have died and others are critically injured after falling from a bouncy castle that was blown into the air in Australia, police say.
The accident - caused by a wind gust - happened on Thursday at a primary school fun day in Devonport, Tasmania.Authorities have not given ages for their children or said how many fell, but confirmed "a number of others" had been critically hurt."It appears a wind gust caused the castle to lift into the air," she told reporters outside Hillcrest Primary School."Young children on a fun day out… and it turns to such horrific tragedy.
ABC reporter Monte Bovill tweeted that locals "have been running to the school to collect their children"."As this involves a primary school, thoughts are obviously with the people involved [and] obviously the parents of the children that have been injured," he said.There have been other fatal bouncy castle incidents. In 2019,after being thrown from a bouncy castle that eyewitnesses say exploded on a Norfolk beach.
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