RIYADH — Not less than 23 individuals have been injured when a fairground attraction in Saudi Arabia snapped mid-ride, sending its full carousel plunging to the bottom, media reported on Thursday.
Footage circulating on-line confirmed the “360 Levels” experience breaking in half, with the round carousel crashing down from a top of a number of meters.
The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel reported 23 injured, 4 of them significantly, within the accident on Wednesday.
The amusement park in Taif, southwest Saudi Arabia, has been closed and an investigation is underway, Al Arabiya added.
Saudi Arabia has been constructing a number of leisure and leisure points of interest because the long-cloistered desert nation seeks to diversify its oil-reliant economic system.
Amongst its so-called giga-projects is Qiddiya close to Riyadh, billed as an “leisure metropolis” of theme parks and a motorsports racetrack. — Agence France-Presse