Toddler dies after being electrocuted while bouncing on funfair trampoline
A toddler has been killed after she was electrocuted in a horror incident at a fairground in Spain.
The two-year-old was bouncing on a trampoline with three older children at around midnight on Sunday, June 15, when they touched a metal fence surrounding it.
Despite the efforts of paramedics attempting to resuscitate her for half an hour, she was pronounced dead in the early hours of that morning.
It is understood that the attraction, located near the city of Murcia, had a fence around it with an electric current running through it, the Mirror reports.
Witnesses said they saw the youngster, who has not been named, unconscious and bleeding from her nose after the incident.
The three other children involved, an eight-year-old girl and two boys aged 11 and 12, were rushed to hospital after sustaining electric shocks. A 29-year-old woman who saw the incident unfold was also treated for an anxiety attack, according to local media.
Spain's Civil Guard police quickly closed off the funfair as they began an investigation into negligence and involuntary manslaughter. It will examine whether the trampoline was safe to use, or was connected to the electrical supply in a dangerous manner.
Murcia City Council declared a three-day mourning period, with officials expressing their condolences.
The fairground was a temporary attraction for summer festivities, but the incident has sparked concerns for safety of similar setups across Spain, particularly during festival season.
Locals have called for tighter restrictions and increased inspections around electricity supplies at such events.
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It comes just a few weeks after an apparent malfunction on a waltzer ride in Edinburgh last month caused it to go "flying" with three children inside.
The car on the ride at a carnival in Wester Hailes"came completely off" according to Kevin McNulty, the father of the children involved, who were aged 13, 12 and 7.
He said: 'My three kids were on the Waltzers with myself and Brooke in car behind. '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'.
The company operating the fair, Galactic Carnival Edinburgh, later issued an apology to the family, and announced the event would be closed while an inspection took place.
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