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A 13-year-old boy suffered serious injuries after falling from a moving carnival ride at a pop-up event in Montana over the weekend, authorities said.

The terrifying incident happened Sunday, June 7, in the parking lot of the Butte Civic Center, according to a press release from Sheriff Ed Lester of the Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement Department.

Just after 3 p.m., Butte Police, Butte Fire Rescue and an A-1 ambulance were called to the scene after reports that someone had been hurt.

Authorities said the teen “fell from a moving carnival ride and sustained serious injuries.”

Butte Civic Center director Bill Melvin told local outlets that the boy had been riding the carnival’s Yoyo attraction when the incident happened.

After the fall, police said the ride was immediately shut down and blocked off as investigators began looking into what went wrong.

As a precaution, officials also suspended all carnival rides at the event.

The boy’s current condition has not been released. Police said the investigation remains ongoing.

The incident happened during the Civic Center’s annual parking lot carnival pop-up, which began Thursday, June 4, and ran through Sunday, June 7.

The rides were operated by Midway West Amusements, a traveling carnival company based in Arizona.

Melvin said the Civic Center had used Midway West Amusements for the past two years without any previous problems.

The Yoyo ride must remain in Butte until it can be inspected, Melvin said. The rest of the carnival rides were being transported to the company’s next pop-up location.

Midway West Amusements has not publicly commented on the incident.

In 2021, the company’s previous owner, Jordan Jensen of Gilbert, Arizona, was charged in Utah with three counts of human trafficking and nine counts of possession of another person’s identity documents, according to a filing from the Utah Attorney General’s Office.

The charges came after Jensen was accused of having 20 Mexican nationals living and working in dangerous and inhumane conditions.

The company’s website now describes Midway West Amusements as a “family owned and operated business” under the management of Nathan and Michelle Jensen.

Montana is one of the few states without statewide oversight of carnival rides, according to KXLF. However, lawmakers passed rules last year requiring certifications for rides that have been examined by qualified inspectors.

The last major carnival ride incident reported in Montana happened in 2018, when an 11-year-old girl was injured after falling from a Typhoon ride at the Western Montana Fair in Missoula.

Eight workers were killed and several others injured after a ladle carrying molten steel exploded at a massive steel plant in India, sending burning metal spilling across the floor.

The deadly blast happened Monday at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in Andhra Pradesh.

Officials said the explosion tore through the SMS-2 and STC-3 heat facilities after a ladle carrying molten steel suddenly failed. The steel, heated to more than 1,600 degrees Celsius, poured out across the work area as panicked employees tried to escape.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene to battle the fire, rescue survivors and secure the facility.

Circle Inspector Kesav Rao confirmed that the blast caused a molten steel leak, killing eight workers and injuring several others.

Police said the extreme heat from the molten metal left little chance of survival for anyone caught close to the ladle when it exploded.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said he was deeply saddened by the tragedy and had ordered officials to coordinate rescue and relief efforts.

“The accident at the Visakh Steel Plant has left me deeply shocked,” Naidu said. “I am distressed to learn that several workers have lost their lives in this accident. I have spoken to the concerned officials and directed them to undertake relief measures in coordination with all government departments.”

Naidu also promised support for the families of the workers who died, as well as those affected by the disaster.

Personnel from the steel plant worked alongside emergency responders to bring the fire under control and prevent further damage.

Authorities said their immediate priority was to secure the area and make sure other workers at the plant were safe.

Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, president of the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, also expressed grief over the deadly incident.

The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is one of India’s largest steel plants and has faced safety questions in the past.

The latest tragedy has renewed concerns about workplace protections at high-risk industrial sites, especially for workers handling molten metal and other dangerous materials.

Officials are expected to continue investigating what caused the ladle to explode and whether safety failures played a role in the deaths.

A Chinese tourist who vanished after falling into the ocean reportedly survived seven terrifying days lost at sea by eating raw crabs with his bare hands.

Qin Jianping, 39, was walking along a cliff in Hainan Province in southern China on Wednesday, May 27, when he stepped on a fruit peel and slipped into the water around 11 p.m. local time, according to reports.

Jianping had little swimming experience, no life jacket and no phone when he was swept into the Qiongzhou Strait.

For nearly a week, he drifted helplessly at sea.

By the second day, he managed to climb onto a floating maritime buoy. But even from there, he could not get help. Passenger ferries reportedly passed by without seeing him.

He tried to swim back to shore, but the waves were too strong.

“For every meter I swam toward the land, the waves pushed me three or four meters back,” he told China Xinhua News.

He also told China Daily the sea was far more frightening than he expected.

“The sea is nothing like a swimming pool,” Jianping said. “I couldn’t touch the bottom, and huge waves kept pushing me farther out.”

“There was no way I could return,” he added.

As the days passed, Jianping became weaker and more desperate. With no food, he eventually began catching small crabs with his bare hands and eating them raw.

“I didn’t start eating crabs until the fifth day,” he said. “The crabs were only about the size of a little finger. I’d grab two or three at a time, rinse them in the sea water and toss them straight into my mouth.”

He estimated that he may have eaten “60, 70, maybe even 80 crabs” during the ordeal.

His only source of liquid reportedly came from small amounts of seawater and his own urine.

At night, temperatures dropped, and Jianping said he struggled to keep warm.

“Urine is a stream of warm heat,” he told China Daily. “I curled into a ball and tried to preserve every bit of warmth.”

Eventually, he became so weak that he began hallucinating.

By the time two fishermen found him on Tuesday, June 2, Jianping was barely conscious and about six miles from land.

“When we found him, he told us, ‘I think I’m dying,’” fisherman Fu Tingsan told the Global Times. “I told him, ‘You’re not going to die. You’ve run into fishermen. We’ll get you home.’”

Tingsan and fellow fisherman Zheng Shizhong found Jianping around 9 a.m. local time and used a wooden pole to help pull him to safety.

Jianping was so disoriented that he reportedly thought his friends had come to take him out for food.

The fishermen brought him onto their boat and rushed him toward shore so he could receive medical treatment.

Doctors said Jianping suffered severe sunburn, skin damage and infections. He also lost about 22 pounds during his week at sea.

Despite an increased heart rate and metabolic problems, doctors said his condition was improving.

His wife had already feared the worst.

“I had already accepted that my husband was gone,” she told China Daily. “I filled three bottles with seawater to take home as a memento.”

She was reportedly preparing to return home when she learned that her husband had been found alive.

Jianping is expected to remain hospitalized for about a week. Once he recovers, he plans to visit the fishermen who saved his life.

“No matter how dangerous or hopeless things get, if you keep a steady mind, you can get through it,” he said.

A tourist at Iguazu Falls sparked outrage after he climbed over a safety barrier and jumped into dangerous moving water to retrieve his dropped cell phone.

The terrifying incident happened Saturday, June 6, on the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls, the massive waterfall system that sits along the border of Brazil and Argentina. The reckless moment was captured by other stunned visitors.

Video showed the man climbing over the guardrail at the end of a walkway that stretches over part of the falls. He then lowered himself into the rushing waters of the Iguaçu River below.

The tourist, dressed in a white T-shirt and jeans, appeared to search for his phone while standing just yards from a deadly 200-foot drop.

The man has not been identified, and it is still unclear whether he ever managed to recover the phone.

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Amazingly, he was able to pull himself back up onto the viewing platform without being swept away. But his dangerous stunt did not go unnoticed.

Local authorities reportedly reprimanded him and escorted him out of the park.

Climbing over, sitting on, or crossing guardrails is strictly forbidden on both the Brazilian and Argentine sides of Iguazu Falls. Officials say visitors who drop items into the river should never try to retrieve them on their own.

Instead, guests are told to contact the on-site fire brigade, which will decide whether a recovery attempt can be made safely.

The phone incident is just the latest reckless moment reported at the famous falls this year.

In January, a man visiting the Devil’s Throat viewpoint on the Argentine side climbed over a barrier to retrieve his hat. He reportedly walked near the edge of a 269-foot drop, grabbed the cap, and calmly returned to the walkway.

Then in February, another visitor was seen lifting a baby over a safety barrier at the same viewpoint while a woman took photos.

While those tourists survived, others have not been so lucky.

In 2011, two American tourists died at Iguazu Falls after their boat capsized and slammed into rocks near the base of the waterfall.

In 2024, two influencers drowned after reportedly refusing to wear life jackets on a transfer boat that later capsized. According to reports, the women allegedly did not want the safety gear to interfere with their tanning.

One of the victims was later found washed up on Itaquitanduva Beach. Before the tragedy, she had posted photos on social media showing herself on the boat moments before she drowned.

Iguazu Falls remains one of the world’s most breathtaking natural wonders, but officials continue to warn visitors that ignoring safety barriers can turn a dream trip into a deadly disaster.

A Texas mother says her 4-year-old son ended up in the hospital after eating a THC lollipop that was allegedly inside a birthday party goodie bag from his Montessori school.

Savannah Mallach told CBS Austin that her son began hallucinating and had an elevated heart rate after eating the candy, which she said came from another student’s birthday celebration at an Austin school.

“It was awful,” Mallach said.

She said her son looked unusually sleepy almost immediately after eating the lollipop.

“He looked high,” she recalled. “He’s 4 years old, and I was thinking in my head, ‘Why do you look high?’”

Mallach said she checked the wrapper inside the goodie bag and realized the lollipop contained THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. She immediately called the school to warn staff so the candy could be kept away from other children.

Her son was taken to the hospital, where she said his heart rate was dangerously high.

“His heart rate was so high. I could feel it in his chest just beating,” she said.

At the hospital, the boy was given an IV as doctors tried to keep him comfortable while the substance worked its way out of his system.

“He wasn’t himself,” Mallach said. “He would wake up and say things that didn’t make sense, he was hallucinating. He wasn’t my happy child. It was awful, it happened to my kid.”

Mallach said her son’s class had more than 20 children, and she believes the school should have alerted other parents immediately. Instead, she claims staff waited nearly two days before sending a vague message through an app.

“It could have been all those kids, and the school chose not to reach out to them for almost two days,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense as to why.”

Mallach said several upset parents, including herself, have since pulled their children from the school.

“There was a big miscommunication because there was none,” she said, claiming the school had not issued an apology. “The parents are angry because they could’ve had that in their bag all week.”

Police and school leaders confirmed the incident happened at The Nest at Anderson Mill in Austin.

According to the Austin Police Department, investigators determined the circumstances were “consistent with an accidental introduction of the item into the goodie bag rather than a deliberate criminal act,” according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Police said the case was administratively closed after the investigation did not produce enough evidence to support criminal charges under Texas law.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is still reviewing the incident.

The school’s CEO, Shavonda Lawson, said the school has been reviewing what happened and looking at ways to improve safety.

“In the days since, we have spent time listening to families, reviewing procedures, evaluating our systems, and identifying additional safeguards to strengthen our program moving forward,” Lawson told CBS News. “We believe that trust is built through accountability, transparency, and action.”

Mallach said her son is now doing much better, but the experience has left her shaken. She said he will be attending a different school that she believes is a better fit for their family.

“My message to the school is to do better, to do better in the future, and own up to any mistakes that have been made,” she said. “I hope that this doesn’t happen to any other child or any other family.”

A Bulgarian man says he lived through a terrifying bear attack in Romania after stopping along a popular mountain road where tourists often go to see wild bears.

Georgi Bizhev, 46, chairman of the Sports and Technical Commission of the Zonal Council of the Bulgarian Football Union, said he was traveling to Hungary on May 27 to attend a soccer match when the frightening encounter happened.

Bizhev said he and a friend were heading to Budapest to watch the Champions League final when they drove through an area known to tourists as “Bear Road” or “Bear Pass.”

“As we do every year, we travelled through the so-called Bear Pass, or the pass that is closest to the sky,” he said during an appearance on The Day Begins, according to BNT News.

Bizhev said the area is well known for one thing: bears.

“Everyone who goes through this pass goes there for one reason only — to see the bears,” he said.

He also claimed local businesses encourage tourists to feed the animals, saying some shops even sell food for visitors to give to the bears.

But the encounter quickly turned dangerous.

Bizhev said another vehicle ahead of him had stopped, and the people inside were feeding a bear and her cub. His car was behind them, and another vehicle carrying Ukrainian tourists was behind his.

He said he stayed inside his car and believed he was safe because the windows were closed.

“The glass was closed and I felt safe,” he said, according to reports.

Bizhev claimed he did not get out of the vehicle or provoke the animal. He alleged the tourists behind him began shouting and honking, which he believes made the situation worse.

Then the bear lunged at his car.

“We saw how the glass of our car was like a sheet of paper to it,” Bizhev said.

The animal reportedly smashed through the window and tried to pull him out.

“Perhaps the fact that I was wearing a seatbelt saved me to some extent,” he said. “It tried to grab me and pull me out of the vehicle.”

Bizhev suffered bite injuries to his left arm and later underwent surgery. He said he is otherwise in stable condition, though his recovery is expected to take three to four months.

He has since admitted that feeding the bear was a mistake, though he said the practice is common in the area.

“There is no one who goes there and does not feed the bears, which does not justify either me or the actions of the person I was with in feeding a wild animal,” he said. “But we do not believe that we did anything wrong.”

Romanian authorities prohibit feeding bears, and violators can face steep fines reportedly ranging from about $2,200 to $6,600.

The terrifying incident is now serving as a chilling reminder that wild animals can turn dangerous in seconds, even when tourists believe they are safely inside a vehicle.