Nine Acrobats Seriously Injured After Falling at Rhode Island Circus
 

Nine Acrobats Seriously Injured After Falling at Rhode Island Circus
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Nine acrobats have sustained serious injuries after falling between 25 and 40 feet during a performance at a Rhode Island circus.

The accident occurred at 11:45 a.m., local time, at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus' Legends show at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, when several performers fell from an aerial platform. Alleged video of the fall can be seen, above (at around the 40 second mark)

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Providence Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare told the AP that the injuries were **t life-threatening, and that the cause of the accident has yet to be determined. "Obviously, something went wrong," he said. Read more...

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