Harlow 'in shock' after death of girl in bouncy castle tragedy

A lengthy police investigation is under way to examine how a bouncy castlelifted off the ground and blew 150 metres away at an Easter fair in Essex, killing the 7-year-old girl playing inside.

Families had gathered at Harlow Town Park on Saturday for the third day of an event over the holiday weekend.

A man, 27, and a 24-year-old woman, both from Cambridgeshire and understood to have been working for a family-run bouncy castle firm at the fair, have been arrested by police on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Emergency services were called to Harlow Town Park shortly after 4pm to reports that a girl had been seriously injured when the bouncy castle she was on blew "some distance" away.

She was treated by ambulance crews and taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital, where she later died.

Detective Inspector Daniel Stoten described it as a "tragic incident" adding that it would be a complex and lengthy investigation...

The fair is closed but people visited the scene on Sunday to pay their respects to the little girl, who was from Norwich.

Among the tributes at the park's entrance is an Easter basket while anothercard on a bunch of flowers reads: "God has taken a beautiful girl for hisangel. RIP Princess."