（美国有线电视新闻网）在澳大利亚的一次学校活动中，五名儿童从一座被风吹向空中的充气城堡坠落 32 英尺（10 米），导致五名儿童死亡，另有四人受重伤。
悲剧发生时，塔斯马尼亚北海岸德文波特 Hillcrest 小学的孩子们正在庆祝学年结束。
塔斯马尼亚警方在一份声明中说：“9 名 5/6 年级 Hillcrest 小学的学生在一场严重的当地风事件导致一座跳跃城堡和几个充气“zorb”球在上午 10 点左右升起后从 10 米左右的高度坠落。一份声明。
这五个孩子包括两个女孩和两个男孩——后来在医院死亡的第五个孩子的性别未知。另外四名儿童仍受重伤留在医院。 6 年级的孩子通常在 10 到 12 岁之间。
“在这些孩子本应该庆祝他们在小学的最后一天的一天，我们都在哀悼他们的损失，”专员 Darren Hine 在周四下午的新闻发布会上说。
他说：“我们为那些过早带走的孩子的家人、亲人、同学和老师感到心碎。”
包括直升机在内的紧急服务被派往学校治疗伤员并将一些人送往医院。
“这是一个非常悲惨的事件，我们与家人和更广泛的学校社区以及我们的第一响应者同在，”警察指挥官黛比威廉姆斯周四在学校告诉记者。
“毫无疑问，这是一个非常艰难和令人痛苦的场景。学校社区中受此影响的家庭以及第一响应者都可以获得咨询，”她说。
Hillcrest Primary School 敦促家长们将孩子从学校接走，因为学校当天提前关闭。
根据学校的 Facebook 页面，充气城堡是作为“Big Day In”的一部分为学生组织的众多款待之一。其他活动包括水上乐园和 Zorb 球。
警方已要求人们避开该地区。
塔斯马尼亚州州长彼得·古特温（Peter Gutwein）说：“我确信我代表所有塔斯马尼亚人向受今天悲剧影响的每个人的家人、朋友和亲人表示最深切的同情。”
“在离圣诞节如此之近的学童庆祝学期结束的一天，发生这种令人震惊的事件简直不可思议。”
Five children dead and four injured after wind lifts bouncy castle into the air
(CNN)Five children are dead and another four are critically injured after they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia.
Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were celebrating the end of the school year when the tragedy occurred.
"Nine grade 5/6 Hillcrest Primary School students fell from a height of around 10 meters after a significant local wind event caused a jumping castle and several inflatable "zorb" balls to lift into the air about 10 am.," Tasmanian Police said in a statement.
The five children include two girls and two boys -- the gender of a fifth child who died later in hospital is not known. Four other children remain in the hospital with serious injuries. Typically children in grade 6 are between 10 and 12 years old.
"On a day where these children were meant to be celebrating their last day at primary school, instead we are all mourning their loss," Commissioner Darren Hine said during a press conference Thursday afternoon.
"Our hearts are breaking for the families and loved ones, school mates and teachers of those children taken too soon," he said.
Emergency services, including helicopters, were dispatched to the school to treat the injured and transport some to hospital.
"This is a very tragic event and our thoughts are with the families and the wider school community, and also our first responders," Police Commander Debbie Williams told reporters at the school on Thursday.
"There is no doubt that this has been a very confronting and distressing scene. Counseling is being made available to the families affected by this in the school community along with the first responders," she said.
Hillcrest Primary School urged parents to collect their children from the school as it closed early for the day.
The bouncy castle was one of a number of treats organized for students as part of the "Big Day In," according to the school's Facebook page. Other activities included a Water Play Zone and Zorb balls.
Police have asked people to avoid the area.
"I'm certain that I speak for all Tasmanians in extending my deepest sympathies to the family, friends and loved ones of everyone affected by today's tragedy," Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said.
"On a day when schoolchildren are celebrating the end of term so close to Christmas, it's simply inconceivable that this shocking incident has occurred."
