After falling from a 45 feet ferris wheel, two sisters died in Teej festival in Ambala Cantonment on Sunday evening. They fell off the ferris wheel when their seat overturned unexpectedly, police said on Monday.
Anjli, 18 and Deepmala, 25, along with a few others from their family, rode the ferris wheel on the occasion of Teej festival at Hathikhana Temple ground in Ambala Cantonment on Sunday evening, they said.
The sisters sat on a two-seater car of the giant Ferris wheel and they fell on the ground when it overturned. They were taken to civil hospital with serious head injuries and were declared brought dead by doctors there, police said.
SHO of Ambala Sadar police station, Vijay Kumar said that after the incident, the manager of the fair fled. A case was registered against him on a charge of gross negligence.
Police have started their investigation as to how the fair organisers were allowed to install the Ferris wheel without taking any permission either from temple committee or from the district administration.
The guilty would be arrested soon, the police said.
Heath minister Anil Vij, who is also an MLA from Ambala Cantonment, visited the civil hospital and ordered an inquiry into the incident.
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