Riders plunge from a derailed roller coaster in Sweden, killing one and injuring several others

A roller coaster bid derailed successful Stockholm connected Sunday, sending immoderate passengers plunging to the crushed successful an amusement parkland mishap that near 1 dormant and 9 injured, constabulary and parkland officials said.

Witnesses described a chaotic country astatine the Gröna Lund parkland arsenic the beforehand of the bid appeared to leap disconnected the tracks earlier coming to a stop, with 1 car tilted toward the ground.

"The beforehand of the bid partially derailed and stopped connected the way astatine a tallness of betwixt 6 and 8 meters (between 20 and 25 feet)," parkland main enforcement Jan Eriksson said. "A full of 14 radical were connected board, of which 1 idiosyncratic has died and respective are injured."

The determination authorities said 9 radical were taken to a hospital, 1 of them successful superior condition. Three of the injured were children, each of them with insignificant injuries, it said.

Witness Ziba Assadi told Swedish broadcaster TV4 that she was lasting conscionable beneath the Jetline roller coaster erstwhile she saw the instrumentality assembly of 1 of the cars crashing to the ground.

"Then the car stops and radical alert out, autumn retired of the car," she said.

Witnesses said 2 oregon 3 radical fell retired of the car, 1 of whom managed to cling to the track. Photos from the country showed a antheral sitting connected a beam beneath the stopped train.

"So helium sits determination straddling (the beam) and waits," Assadi said. "There was implicit panic."

The amusement parkland was evacuated aft the mishap and volition stay closed for 7 days to let investigators to find retired what went wrong, parkland officials said.

"This should not beryllium allowed to happen," Gröna Lund spokeswoman Annika Troselius said. "Safety is the astir important happening for us. And we would ne'er unfastened an attraction if we were not assured that it was safe, truthful this is thing we request to analyse thoroughly."

Police launched a transgression probe connected imaginable charges of involuntary manslaughter, causing bodily harm and causing information to others.

The 800-meter (2,600-foot) agelong Jetline rollercoaster opened successful 1988 and was renovated successful 2000, according to Gröna Lund. It has a maximum tallness of 30 meters (98 feet) and a apical velocity of 90 kph (56 mph).

Opened successful 1883, Gröna Lund is Sweden's oldest amusement park.