Just three weeks following the tragic accident in Australia, there was another fatal bouncy castle accident in Spain: an eight-year-old girl died on Wednesday in the hospital in Valencia, reported the state television broadcaster RTVE and other Spanish media citing the Authorities. On December 16, five children were killed in a bouncy castle accident in the Australian state of Tasmania.
The Mislata community ordered a three-day official mourning until Friday and canceled all festive events for the next few days. “There are no comforting words, a real drama. A very sad day for Mislata,” wrote Mayor Carlos Fernandez Bielsa on Twitter on Wednesday.
The accident occurred on Tuesday evening at a fair in the municipality of Mislata – a suburb of the Valencia metropolis in eastern Spain. As in Australia, a violent wind tore an inflatable castle into the air in Mislata. As a result, numerous children fell from a height of several meters. A total of nine of them had to be taken to hospital with some serious injuries.
The eight-year-old fatality suffered, among other things, severe head injuries, it said. According to the official information, another child was treated in the hospital on Wednesday. The other seven children have since been released. The police said they were investigating.