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A video showing horrifying moments of a water slide accident in an amusement park in Indonesia has gone viral on social media. The video shows children at the amusement park falling to the ground from a height of 30-feet after the waterslide they were riding on collapsed in the middle. Onlookers screamed in shock as others attempted to help the victims. The incident occurred at Kenjeran park in East Java’s Surabaya city on May 7, reported Daily Star.
Out of the total 16 visitors who were trapped inside the slide, eight had to be rushed to a nearby hospital with three of them sustaining broken bones.
The amusement park in a statement said that the accident happened because the ride had worn out and weakened over time. While maintenance work was carried out over 9 months ago, the slide could not handle the overload of people.