


Sindbad General Manager Saeed Qazi also feels that the incident was an unfortunate but isolated event. A boat ride is under construction as well and the swing coupon seller at the entrance casually informs visitors that the first few rides are out of order and they can use the coupons for other swings instead. The authorities felt that shutting the swing down for some time was enough to avoid further mishaps. He was rushed to hospital but the head injury proved fatal. Rizwan had taken the last seat on the ride and somehow, his head had bashed through a glass window and collided with a metal bar. Just as the swing took off, the operator heard a sickening crunch, a thud and the sound of blood splattering on to the pavement below. The ride is the second one to the left and has no age restriction, so most children, and adults, make a beeline for the winged, apple-red bus-cum-plane. The employees were putting their feet up during the hour-long iftar break on the second day of fasting when some of them decided to have a go at the rides, witnesses told the The Express Tribune.Ī relatively new employee, 24-year-old Rizwan, chose the ‘Crazy Plane’ and clambered on with his cousin Omar. The handful of families who had turned up were completely unaware of the incident. Workers put the unusually subdued atmosphere at the park down to Ramazan, not the accident. On Thursday night after iftar, just 24 hours after the fatal accident, it was reopened for business. An employee’s death in a ride malfunction at Nisar Shaheed’s Amusement Park Sindbad caused a mere ripple in the park’s routine.
