A carriage on the “Jetline” roller coaster in Gröna Lund in Stockholm has derailed, reports SVT. Police and ambulance are on the scene. The amusement park was evacuated after the incident, where one person is said to have died and several others are said to have been injured. – It is unclear what has happened, but several have fallen out, says duty officer Moa Hummelgård in the Swedish rescue service to Aftonbladet. The police have emptied the park of people. An area around the park is also closed to allow ambulances and rescue services to arrive. The track of the Berg-og-dal-banen was put into use in 1988, and is 30 meters high and 800 meters long. The carriages can reach up to 90 kilometers per hour. According to SVT, one of the carriages must have derailed at speed, and several people must have been thrown out when the carriage fell to the ground. One person is said to have become stuck. Work will be done to get the people down in the other carriages that are stuck in the track. It is unknown what is the cause of the carriage derailment, says head of information at Gröna Lund, Annika Troselius, to Expressen. – This is something that should not happen, and it is very tragic for everyone involved, she says. To investigate the accident, Troselius says they are now concentrating on taking care of both those affected by the accident and the employees at the amusement park. She says they will also investigate how such an accident could happen. But there should not have been any technical problems at the track. – It is an attraction that has worked exactly as it should. Everyone is shocked today.
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