Seven-year-old tells of sculpture tragedy

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl told yesterday how dozens of horrified onlookers tried to tear open a stricken inflatable sculpture with their bare hands and penknives after it crashed to the ground in a British country park.

Little Chloe Wilson, who witnessed the tragedy on Sunday, which claimed two lives, yesterday returned to Riverside Park in Chester-le-Street to lay a bunch of flowers at the spot where she saw an elderly victim dying.

The two women died after the Dreamscape visitor attraction was blown 30ft into the air before careering to the ground, injuring dozens as horrified families looked on. Television footage showed it breaking free of its moorings. Thirteen people were also injured in the accident.