The nightmare unfolded as the little girl and three older children aged 8, 11 and 12 accidentally touched an electrified metal fence surrounding a giant fairground trampoline
A two-year-old was killed and other children injured after they were electrocuted at a funfair.
The nightmare unfolded as the little girl and three older children touched a metal fence that was surrounding a giant fairground trampoline.
Paramedics fought desperately to resuscitate the two-year-old for half an hour but she was tragically declared dead in the early hours of June 15, after the children touched the fence around midnight.
It is understood that the kids were playing on the trampoline at the Spanish attraction when they touched a metal mesh fence around it which had an electric current running through it.
Horrified witnesses described seeing the girl, who has not been named, unconscious and bleeding from her nose following the appalling accident.
Three other children, an eight-year-old girl and two boys aged 11 and 12, were also taken to hospital after suffering electric shocks from the fence. A 29-year-old woman who witnessed the harrowing scenes play out had to be treated for an anxiety attack, local media reported. The fairground was sealed off by Spain’s Spain’s Civil Guard police as they launched an investigation into negligence and involuntary manslaughter.
The probe will look into whether the attraction was safe to use or was connected to the electrical network in a dangerous manner. Three days of mourning were declared by Murcia City Council and officials expressed condolences.
The fairground is a temporary setup to celebrate summer festivities in the town, which is home to around 6,000 people. Concern has spread nationwide following the harrowing incident, with widespread fears around the safety of temporary fairground rides across Spain, especially during festival season.
As investigations continue locals are calling for tighter rules and more inspections around the electrical supplies at the events.
Meanwhile a fairground ride went “flying” with children inside at the Galactic Carnival Festival in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, after it suddenly appeared to malfunction.
The waltzers ride suddenly “came completely off” and went “flying” according to dad Kevin McNulty who was in the car on the ride behind his three children aged 13, 12 and 7 when the horror incident occurred last month.
“My three kids were on the Waltzers with myself and Brooke in car behind,” he said. “Then the unthinkable happened. Going FULL PELT (not slowing down) their car came completely off and then went flying into our car.
“It then smashed about the place crashing into the side off the track, thankfully there was a heavy large speaker that they collided with or they would have been through the whole thing and then the ending would have been a completely different story”.