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Fairground staff 'heard scream' as toddler was fatally hit by rollercoaster

A fairground ride operator heard a scream before seeing a toddler lying fatally injured after being hit by a rollercoaster, an inquest heard.

Girl in coma, strangled by scarf on ride

A POLICE investigation was underway today after a young girl was left in a coma following a Paris fairground accident.

'I heard a scream and ran to find my son dying on ground'

The father of a two-year-old boy killed by a fairground rollercoaster wept as he told an inquest of the moment he found his son dying on the ground.

Kim Jong-un stars in new North Korean TV documentary

On what is believed to be Kim Jong-un's birthday, North Korea's state television broadcasts a new documentary on the 'Great Successor' in which he rides tanks, horses and a fairground ride

Winds of change

For years, Moscow's historic Gorky Park, the spooky location of American writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller, was a tacky, neglected space with old roller coasters, vodka and candy floss. Now visitors lounge on beanbags, attend mass yoga classes and access free wi-fi on their laptops.