Three die in Spanish fairground horror

Three people died when they were flung from a fairground ride in a village in central Spain.

The Interior Ministry in the Castilla-La Mancha region said three young Romanians died and a fourth was injured in the accident in Villacanas.

It was not clear what went wrong.

Some reports said a ride called the Tarantula came untethered from the ground.

Villacanas is a village of 9,000 people located about 50 miles from the regional capital Toledo.

The ride had four large metal arms that spin around an axis, and cars at the end that also twirl.

One of those four arms snapped in two, said police.

Many Spanish towns and villages hold summer festivals or carnivals. The tragedy occurred on the first night of the fiesta in Villacanas.