5 Children Die, More Critically Injured After Jumping Castle Blown Into Air in Australia

5 Children Die, More Critically Injured After Jumping Castle Blown Into Air in Australia
Worksafe Tasmania officers (left) inspect the jumping castle at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia, on Dec. 16, 2021. AAP Image/Grant Wells
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Five children have died and four more critically injured after falling from a jumping castle when it was blown into the air by a wind gust at Hillcrest Primary School in Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania on Thursday morning.

The children who died included two boys and two girls in year 6, which would make them 10 or 11 years old, said Tasmania Police Commissioner Darren Hine. Police later Thursday confirmed a fifth child died in the hospital.

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