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Mother and two kids left stranded on amusement park ride for two hours
Published: May 06, 2019 07:03 PM

The firefighter rescue the mother and children. Source: Pear Video



A thrill-loving mother in East China never anticipated that she and her two children would be trapped mid air in a gondola of a gentle-looking ride at an amusement park. 

The mother from Taishun county in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province took her two children, one just two years old, on the ride that lifts colorful basket-shaped gondolas up and down an umbrella-shaped tower. 

A mechanical failure prevented the basket from being lowered and firefighters were called to rescue the mother and children who had already been stuck 20 meters in the air for an hour, China News Service reported. 

The firefighters managed to climb to the top of the tower and rappel down to the family in the gondola. The mother and children were finally on terra firma after another hour. 

Some Net users scolded the mother and rider operators for allowing a two-year-old on the ride, while others said the operator should be investigated for poor maintenance of the facility.