Three flung to deaths from fairground ride

The Interior Ministry in the Castilla-La Mancha region said three young Romanians died and a fourth, a teenage girl, was severely injured in the accident in Villacanas.

It was not immediately clear what went wrong and some reports said the ride, called the Tarantula, came untethered from the ground.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard police force in the regional capital, Toledo, said the ride, called the Tarantula, had four large metal arms that spun around an axis, with cars at the end that also twirled, and one of the four arms snapped in two.

Villacanas is a village of 9,000 people about 50 miles from Toledo.

Many Spanish towns and villages hold summer festivals and the tragedy occurred on the first night of the fiesta in Villacanas.

Police said those who died were three Romanian men in their 20s and 30s; a 16-year-old Romanian girl was severely injured.