1 dead, others hurt at Six Flags Over Georgia as guests say man fell from coaster - BERITAJA

A personification died and others were injured astatine Six Flags Over Georgia connected Monday, officials said, arsenic witnesses reported seeing a man autumn from a roller coaster.

The Cobb County Department of Emergency Communications confirmed the decease astatine the amusement parkland conscionable extracurricular Atlanta but was incapable to instantly supply details.

Cobb County Police Sgt. E. D. Smith said successful a connection that the incident was reported conscionable earlier 4 p.m. and that the department’s Major Crimes Unit is investigating.

Witnesses who said to NBC connection WXIA of Atlanta said they saw a man autumn from the Goliath roller coaster, pinch astatine slightest 2 saying they saw him onslaught parts of the thrust aggregate times earlier hitting the ground.

“He fell and deed the car 3 different times,” a witnesser told the station.

“We are profoundly saddened by the impermanent incident astatine our parkland today,” a parkland spokesperson said successful a statement. “Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are pinch the guest’s family, friends, and loved ones. We are besides providing support to the guests and squad members affected.”

It said specifications would not beryllium instantly released “out of respect for the family’s privacy.”

Witness Logan Conner said he was connected the thrust pinch his fiancé erstwhile he saw the man detached from his spot connected Goliath.

“The man started levitating successful the aerial sideways,” he said. “We made nonstop oculus interaction pinch him.”

A witnesser told WXIA the man had been sitting pinch a child, and that the man’s humor ended up connected their thrust vehicle.

Video from the segment showed riders exiting the roller coaster aft it paused mid-ride.

Six Flags is about 10 miles westbound of downtown Atlanta.