“When the swing went up, we saw people fall from it. There were children and women sitting in it,” a woman said, adding that the carnival-goers assisted in transporting the injured to hospitals.
HS Bal, DSP (City 2), told The News that according to their information. Four people were injure, but they are investigating the matter. “A carnival was being hold, also an eyewitness told us that a technical snag in the swing had cause it to fall,” DSP Bal explaine.
The carnival’s organisers are said to have exit the scene. The Mohali Trade Fair, where the incident occurr, was schedule to run until September 11.
Mohali Deputy Commissioner Amit Talwar stated that an investigation will be conduct to determine. Whether the organisers obtained permission from the appropriate authorities to hold the carnival.
The injured, who included children and women, were take to the hospital shortly after the incident. According to an official, the fair’s organisers had permission to hold the event until September 4, but a board notifying the extension of the fair’s deadline was place at the location, which start September 11 as the deadline.