Article 5T3C4 Australia jumping castle tragedy: five children dead and several critically injured in Tasmania

Australia jumping castle tragedy: five children dead and several critically injured in Tasmania

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Cait Kelly and Australian Associated Press
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Police say children fell about 10 metres after wind lifted a bouncy castle into the air at Hillcrest primary school in Devonport

A fifth child has died and three remain critically injured after they fell about 10 metres from a jumping castle that was blown into the air in north-west Tasmania.

Police confirmed two girls and two boys, in year 5 and 6, died in the tragedy at Hillcrest primary school in Devonport on Thursday morning. In a statement on Thursday evening police confirmed a fifth child died in hospital.

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