Two people were killed and 10 others, most of them children, were injured in a fatal excavator accident occurred at a camp for fathers and children in the Harburg district of Lower Saxony, northern Germany.
A police spokesperson said the group was riding in a box that was being carried along a dirt road by the excavator. The box detached and fell from the excavator after a hydraulic hose on the vehicle tore.
Some of the people were then trapped underneath the box, police added.
A fire brigade spokesperson said the group was riding over the road “for fun”.
The excavator was seized for police investigation.
Source: Qatar News Agency