Girl, 8, dies and eight others hurt after wind blows bouncy castle into air in Spain

Mislata, a municipality on the outskirts of Valencia, declared a period of official mourning until Friday and said all remaining Christmas festivities would be cancelled 

An eight-year-old girl has died and eight children have been injured after wind gusts lifted a bouncy castle metres into the air at a fair in eastern Spain. Picture: VLC Firefighters Consortium/Twitter

An eight-year-old girl has died and eight children have been injured after wind gusts lifted a bouncy castle metres into the air at a fair in eastern Spain.

Emergency services were called to the fairgrounds in Mislata, a municipality on the outskirts of Valencia, on Tuesday evening. Minutes earlier, horrified witnesses had watched as the fair’s inflatable structure became airborne, throwing several children on to the ground, according to El País newspaper.