[VIDÉO] Saudi Arabia: an accident in an amusement park is 23 injured

At least 23 people were injured, including four seriously, in an accident on Wednesday in an amusement park in western Saudi Arabia, local media reported on Thursday.

Videos widely broadcast on social networks show an attraction with thrills called “360 game”, made up of a circular platform on which visitors take place, suspended from a giant mechanical arm that oscillates from top to bottom.

It is the sudden rupture of this mechanical arm which would have caused the sudden fall of the entire installation on the ground, with the visitors on board.

The Saudi channel al-Arabiya said on X that the accident had made “23 injured (…) including 4 seriously (…) in an accident in Taëf”, the newspaper, the newspaper Occasionally reporting “more than 23 injured”.

Al-Arabiya said the park had been closed and that an investigation had been opened.

Saudi Arabia multiplies leisure and entertainment projects in the context of efforts to diversify an economy long dependent on oil.

Among the flagship projects is the Entertainment Park of Qiddiya, which will extend over 500,000 square meters near the capital.