China amusement park: Teen girl found death

A teenage girl has died after being flung out of a fast-
turning ride at an amusement park in central China.

She was thrown on to metal railings and was taken
 to a hospital, where she later died.

An initial investigation showed her seatbelt had broken
 and a passenger safety bar did not fit tightly enough at
 the Chaohua Park near the city of Chongqing.

The "Travel Through Space" ride was inspected in 
December,reports said.

Video footage showing the girl hanging from the seat
 before being hurled off.

The West China Metropolis Daily reported on Sunday that
 the girl's family had reached a compensation agreement
 with the park for their only child's death amounting to 
870,000 yuan ($127,000; £100,000).

China's safety regulator said it had asked Chongqing authorities to suspend all the park's big rides for checks
 to be carried out.

It also ordered other companies operating the same ride
 to stop using it and contact its manufacturer in the city of Chengdu for further checks.


Worst amusement park accidents

Eight teenagers were killed in a 1984 fire at the Six Flags
Great Adventure amusement park in New Jersey, US.
Arsonists are believed to have started the blaze

Six people died in a failed simulated rocket launch in
Shenzhen, China, in 2010. One of the cars on the centrifuge
ride became loose, lost power and the ride fell to the ground
in flames with 44 people inside

Five children were killed when the Battersea Park Big Dipper
malfunctioned in the UK in 1972. Rope hauling cars to the 
top of launch slope broke and a safety mechanism failed, causing cars to roll into the boarding area

Four people died in 2016 when their raft on the Thunder 
River Rapids ride in the Dreamworld Amusement park in
Queensland, Australia, collided with another raft and 
flipped over

Three died at the Galaxyland Amusement Park in Alberta,
Canada, in 1986. The last car of a four-car train on the
Mindbender triple loop ride came away from the track,
throwing off passengers before crashing into a concrete
 pillar

Sixteen people - including two teenage girls who needed
 leg amputations - were injured at UK's Alton Towers park
 in 2015. Staff failed to notice a stationary car on the 14-
loop Smiler ride and overrode the stop mechanism, 
sending the next car into it