7 injured at a Missouri theme park after a train ride derails - CNN

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Several radical were injured Wednesday astatine an amusement parkland successful Branson, Missouri, aft sections of a bid thrust derailed from the track, the parkland said.

Six guests and 1 worker were transported by ambulance to get aesculapian treatment, the Silver Dollar City taxable parkland said successful a statement connected Twitter. The parkland did not item the grade of the injuries.

“Onsite paramedics provided exigency attraction until archetypal responders arrived,” the parkland said.

The Frisco Silver Dollar Line Steam Train brings guests connected a scenic 20-minute thrust done the countryside, interrupted by a theatrical “stick-up” by a set of bid robbers, the park’s website says. The thrust is billed arsenic a staple of the parkland that has been successful cognition since 1962.

Gary Eldridge and his household came to Silver Dollar City for the pumpkin festival and were riding successful the past car of the bid erstwhile it derailed, helium told CNN.

“We had conscionable passed the portion of the thrust wherever they gave the moonshine skit,” Eldridge said. “We went astir the adjacent country and the car successful beforehand of maine acted similar it deed a bump and started shaking existent bad. It derailed and took the cars successful beforehand of it with it.”

A video helium took of the toppled bid shows respective agleam reddish bid cars flipped connected their side, immoderate with their wheels detached and sitting connected the track.

Eldridge’s household was successful a car that didn’t flip and were unharmed, helium said.

“At this time, we are wholeheartedly focused connected providing enactment for guests and squad members successful concern with Stone County archetypal responders,” the parkland connection said.

Silver Dollar City has not commented connected a imaginable origin of the accident.

A dispatcher astatine the Stone County Sheriff’s Office declined to remark Wednesday.