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A locomotive broke loose from a train on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster attraction Friday, killing one person and injuring 10 others, officials said.
The fatality was an adult male, said city spokesman John Nicoletti.
Additional information wasn't immediately available, police Sgt. Rick Martinez said.
One victim had been reported in critical condition earlier at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange. It was unclear if that was the person who died.
The roller coaster accident occurred at 11:20 a.m., Disneyland spokeswoman Ruthy Flores said.
Television news helicopters broadcast scenes of a triage unit set up near the ride and one person being wheeled to an ambulance on a stretcher.
The roller coaster takes amusement park visitors on a twisting, turning ride aboard what is supposed to be a runaway train in the Old West. Riders zoom through mineshafts and caverns, past falling rocks and tumbling waterfalls.
The ride is computer operated, said Joe Aguirre, a park spokesman. It opened in 1979 and is newer than the Space Mountain attraction, which opened in 1977, and Matterhorn Bobsleds, which debuted in 1959.
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The fatality was an adult male, said city spokesman John Nicoletti.
Additional information wasn't immediately available, police Sgt. Rick Martinez said.
One victim had been reported in critical condition earlier at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange. It was unclear if that was the person who died.
The roller coaster accident occurred at 11:20 a.m., Disneyland spokeswoman Ruthy Flores said.
Television news helicopters broadcast scenes of a triage unit set up near the ride and one person being wheeled to an ambulance on a stretcher.
The roller coaster takes amusement park visitors on a twisting, turning ride aboard what is supposed to be a runaway train in the Old West. Riders zoom through mineshafts and caverns, past falling rocks and tumbling waterfalls.
The ride is computer operated, said Joe Aguirre, a park spokesman. It opened in 1979 and is newer than the Space Mountain attraction, which opened in 1977, and Matterhorn Bobsleds, which debuted in 1959.
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