Rollercoaster horror as parents cling onto screaming kids 20ft in air on broken ride

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broken fairground ride left parents clinging onto their children as they were suspended 20ft in the air "for at least 90 minutes"Photos have captured kids screaming as they dangled from a rollercoaster which had stopped on the tracks at Pleasureland in Southport, Merseyside on Saturday.Horrified families and onlookers watched on as one girl was "carried off the ride unconscious" while her father desperately clambered off the ride to get to her, reports The Mirror. READ MORE: Man farted in police officer's face after being nabbed for shoplifting beerMichael Bowman, 57, who had travelled with his wife Christine, 35, and eight-year-old son from Stoke-on-Trent told the Mirror that they left the park with safety concerns, after two more rides suffered technical issues.He said: "We walked towards The Rocket and I thought something's not right there.

All of a sudden a cherry picker came past us and all staff were guiding people out the way."We looked up and said 'Oh my God, it's stuck all the way round'.

You could see that it was on an angle and they were all leaning."The parents had hold of the children because they were leaning out of the carriage on the bend."People were just stood watching in shock."We know that a young girl had passed out and the father was trying to climb over the barrier out of the ride to get to his daughter.

You could see the worry in the father's face."The ambulance was on its way at that point. They must have been up there a good hour and a half."He claimed that they were stranded at least 20ft in the air.Maintenance teams for Pleasureland were rushed to the scene and began rescuing the 19 people trapped on the 22-person capacity ride with a cherry picker.Paramedics and fire crews were also called to.