GOLD COAST, Australia, Oct 26, (APP/AFP) – Two children had a “miracle” survival when a raft flipped at an Australian theme park killing four adults, police said Wednesday, as claims emerged that safety concerns had been raised at Dreamworld last year. Two women and two men died when two rafts on the Thunder River Rapids ride at the Gold Coast tourist attraction collided Tuesday, tipping one backwards, with police saying the victims were “caught in machinery”. But two girls on the six-person circular raft, aged 10 and 13, survived. Reports, which police would not confirm, said they were the daughters of one of the dead women. “It seems, from what I’ve seen, almost a miracle that anybody came out of that,” Queensland Police assistant commissioner Brian Codd told reporters after viewing CCTV footage of the tragedy.
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Kids’ ‘miracle’ survival as Australia theme park deaths probed
