Nightmare At Dreamworld

[icyfroth]

Up to four people are believed to have been killed in an accident involving a conveyor belt on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld.

Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast has issued a statement confirming at least three people are dead after an accident on one of its rides in the Gold Coast.

The accident is believed to have occurred after 2pm.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/10/25/serious-injuries-dreamworld-ride-accident

What a horrible, terrible thing to happen!

[lionrose.7]

They are saying 4 dead now 😞

[imastawka]

Two men and two women ranging in age from 32 through to their early 40s died after the theme park ride malfunctioned this afternoon, Queensland Ambulance Services spokesman Gavin Fuller said.

"One of the rides had sustained some sort of malfunction causing two people to be ejected from the ride," Mr Fuller said.

"Another two people were caught inside the ride – two males and two females," Mr Fuller said.

Aerial footage shows one of the ride's six-seat circular rafts flipped on the conveyor belt that usually delivers them back to the boarding and disembarking area.

9NEWS understands the victims were possibly from the same family and may have been visiting from interstate.

 http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/dreamworld-deaths-four-killed-after-family-ride-malfunctione...

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

How awful. We have been on that ride.

Not sure that Dreamworld can recover from this especially if its true that there were a few maintenance issues today. No winners.

My heart goes out to the families involved. RIP.        

[davidc4430]

yes, very sad for those involved.

i saw it on tonight abc news, from the video they showed of this 'ride' i couldnt see what could go wrong, its a stream of water with people sitting in a large rubber tire/tube thing. nothing that wild, quite tame by todays ride standards. someone said they thought 2 of the rides tube things touched together causing one of them to flip over. id have thought they shouldnt get that close together, maybe that is where the problem was.