A mother and her three year-old son sustained serious injuries last Saturday afternoon after they were flung into the air from an amusement park ride in Wuhan.

The woman was flung with such force that she broke three bars of the steel railing surrounding the ride, breaking a vertabrae in her lower back. The boy, also flung, was bleeding from the nose and ears after hitting his head on the ground.

Both victims were sent to hospital for medical treatment. They are currently in stable but serious condition with non-life threatening injuries.

Called the “Giant Octopus”, the amusement ride is located in the city’s Zhongshan Park.

Bystander Miss Liu described the scene of the incident:

After the child was flung outside the fence, he was crying heavily, but remained motionless on the ground. The mother was dazed for a number of seconds, and then sat herself upright against the fence.

Miss Ding, the woman’s cousin, said that the ride “seemed to run faster than any other time before” while they were on it. Reports say the only safety device onboard the “Giant Octopus” is a safety bar held across the riders’ lap.

This isn’t the first injury to occur at an amusement park this year. This past Labor Day, two people died when five riders on a ride called “Crazy Scream” in Zhejiang were thrown off. Back in April, 19 people were injured after being thrown off an amusement ride at a temple fair in Henan.

Here are more photographs from the incident: