Fairground

Probe being carried out into fatal fairground injury of girl, 13

Police in Volos, central Greece, are investigating the circumstances that led to the death of a 13-year-old girl at a fairground near the town of Almyros on Friday.

The incident occurred shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday night, according to local reports, which said the girl fell off one of the rides from a great height.

Manager of fairground where boy, 13, died blames weather


The manager of a fairground in Elliniko, south of Athens, where a 13-year-old boy died on Sunday, told a magistrate that "extreme weather conditions" were to blame for the death and insisted that the equipment at the facility was new and met European Union quality standards, Skai reported on Friday.

Testimony of four charged with boy's fairground death halted after lawyers appeal


Four people faced an investigating magistrate on Friday to answer to criminal charges of manslaughter with possible malice aforethought following the death on Sunday of a 13-year-old boy, and the serious injury of his nine-year-old sister, at an unlicensed fairground in Elliniko, south of Athens.

Four to answer to criminal charges after boy's fairground death


Four people were to face an investigating magistrate on Friday to answer to criminal charges of manslaughter with possible malice aforethought following the death on Sunday of a 13-year-old boy, and the serious injury of his nine-year-old sister, at an unlicensed fairground in Elliniko, south of Athens.