Two people killed by inflatable artwork

[ikri]

From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/5208460.stm

Two people have been killed and several injured after a large, inflatable sculpture blew free from its moorings in County Durham.

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An elderly woman and a 35-year-old man both had heart attacks.

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A Durham Fire Brigade spokesman said: "There's been a large inflatable structure, which included walls and floors and obviously the top, which has somehow lifted off the ground, and moved between thirty and forty metres out of its pitched area.

There's a video of it taking off that's being shown on the BBC news but it hasn't made it to the BBC website yet

**edit** There are a few stills from the report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5208692.stm

[Radio_Lady]

1. "Inflatable artwork"? What a tragedy! But how did that cause --

two heart attacks?

Thanks for posting, ikri, and welcome to the DU!

[ikri]

2. It's really really big

Half the size of a football field, about 50 x 50 metres, in size.

The sight of that dropping down on top of you might be enough to cause a heart attack.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Maybe the two who had heart attacks were inside the artwork structure

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Many were inside the artwork, which consists of connected rooms, when it lifted 30ft into the air at Riverside Park on Sunday afternoon.

A 68-year-old woman from Seaham and a 38-year-old woman from Chester-le-Street have died.

A three-year-old girl was airlifted to hospital with crushing injuries.



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The sculpture - called Dreamspace - is thought to have drifted for up to 40 metres before catching on a CCTV camera post and coming down near a children's playground.