11 hurt as rope breaks on park’s ‘Mt Everest’
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ELEVEN school students were injured yesterday after a rope broke at a forest park in Baoshan District.
The students were on outings arranged by their schools in Xuhui and Hongkou districts and taking part in a “Climbing Mount Everest” activity at the Wusong Paotaiwan Wetland Forest Park, Baoshan’s greenery authority said in a statement.
The activity features a 13-meter iron pillar with a net around it for people to climb.
Costing 10 yuan (US$1.49), it claims to “train the bravery, confidence and balance of children effectively,” according to an information notice nearby, which also says the facility is “safe and reliable.”
However, a rope fastening the net to the pillar broke yesterday morning and part of the net collapsed while a number of students were climbing, according to witnesses.
One witness said online that some of the children appeared to be bleeding from head wounds.
The injured were taken by ambulance to the nearby Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital. All were suffering from minor wounds, mainly scratch and bruises, a doctor said.
Nine had been released by yesterday evening, while the remaining two are being kept in for observation, the doctor said.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
The wetland park, which is along the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers, was opened to the public in 2007. It is rated as a national 4A scenic spot, a city five-star park and a national educational base. The site was originally used as a military base. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) government built gun platforms there and it was a coastal defense fort during the First Opium War (1840-1842).
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