A father died and his four-year-old daughter was badly injured in France after a bouncy fortress wherein they had been taking part in at a water park was blown skyward by excessive winds, prosecutors mentioned Monday.

The 35-year-old man had been taken to hospital along with his youngster after the accident on Sunday on the water park in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in France’s southern Var area, massively widespread with vacationers in the summertime. He died later that day.

The construction, some 20 metres (65 toes) lengthy, lifted 50 metres off the bottom on the Wonderland Waterpark, with each victims trapped inside, the prosecutor for the close by city of Draguignan mentioned in a press release.

The daughter’s life stays in peril, the prosecutor’s workplace added. It mentioned the bouncy fortress had taken off because of “robust gusts of wind” that had been buffeting the world on the time after a spell of sizzling climate.

An investigation has been opened into involuntary murder.

Draguignan prosecutor Man Bouchet instructed AFP that the administration of the park had taken the choice to droop the bouncy fortress exercise because of the climate on the very second the accident occurred.

“How can a water park that had been accepted on the municipal territory to convey pleasure and happiness to kids be remodeled right into a machine of dying that strikes down a complete household?” the native mayor Alain Decanis wrote on Fb.

He vowed the investigation opened by prosecutors would supply solutions. The kid, like her father, needed to be resuscitated after struggling cardiac arrest.

The Wonderland Waterpark opened solely this summer season some 40 kilometres (25 miles) exterior the city of Aix-en-Provence.