A video posted on Sunday evening appears to show part of an amusement park ride in India crashing to the ground with dozens of people on board.
A video shows an amusement park"drop tower" malfunctioning and sending its riders into a free-fall.Outlets reported that 16 women and children were hospitalised as a result of the accident.
The ride was a"drop tower" attraction that broke at a fair in Mohali, a district of the Indian state of Punjab,The attraction featured a tower and a circular platform, which spun as it ascended the tower. When it reached the top, it plummeted abruptly, smashing into the ride's bottom. A clip of the incident was tweeted by Nikhil Choudhary, a journalist for Hindi-language broadcaster TV9, who wrote that 16 women and children were hospitalized following the incident.
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