4 döda på nöjespark Queensland Australien

Two children who were in the accident at the Dreamworld theme park that killed four adults had a “miracle” escape, Queensland police said on Wednesday.

The ride on the Thunder River Rapids at the Gold Coast theme park flipped as it was travelling on a conveyor belt at the end of the water-based ride about 2pm on Tuesday. Two adults became trapped under the six-person raft and two were caught in the conveyor belt.



They have been identified as brother and sister Luke Dorsett, 35 and Kate Goodchild, 32, and Dorsett’s partner, Roozi Araghi, 38. All three are from Canberra.

The fourth woman has been identified in New Zealand and Australia media as Cindy Low, 42, originally from Kawerau in the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, who lived in Sydney with her family. Fairfax Media reported that she was on the raft with her 10-year-old son while her partner and daughter were in another raft.

The other child in the raft was a 12-year-old girl, understood to be Goodchild’s daughter. Both children were physically unharmed but were traumatised and are in hospital and being offered counselling.

Codd said the raft, or “flume”, which looks like six chairs arranged in a circle on a giant inner tube, “turned over and flipped, resulting in it falling back on top of those persons and those persons being variously caught in machinery”.

“One [raft] has flipped backwards and it has caught and tossed some of the people that were on the ride backwards on the conveyor belt,” he said.


He declined to go into any more detail but said the scene was so traumatic that it had a “deep and emotional effect” on police and paramedics. .