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Student, 18, breaks legs, hands and spine in 30-foot fall from theme park ride

This is the horrifying moment a university student broke both her legs after falling 30-feet from an amusement park ride in Peru.

Arianna Pamela Angeles Huertas, 18, fractured her legs, hands and spine after she was allegedly allowed on the 'Jump into the Void' ride without an emergency cord attached to her safety harness.

Graphic video shows the teenager plummet to the ground with a sickening thud at the Mr Joy theme park in Trujillo on Thursday.

The young woman's family say she may never regain feeling in her limbs and have accused the ride operator of negligence.

A video taken just before the accident shows Ariana happily climbing onto the ride (Dave Rudge)

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She has undergone emergency surgery but will require at least ten more operations and a year of rehabilitation therapy, according to RPP Informando.

The park has remains closed until the cause of the accident is established.

Footage - posted by a relative on social media - shows Miss Huertas smiling as she prepares to jump off the high platform.

Somebody below counts down from three, then she leaps off and grabs hold of a moving foam cylinder suspended over the edge.

As she swings in mid-air she suddenly loses her grip and crashes down onto the hard floor below before the footage cuts out.

The 18-year-old holds onto the foam cylinder (Dave Rudge)
She loses her grip just before she hits the end (Dave Rudge)

Her cousin, Estefani Perezanelli, told RPP Informando: "My cousin is stable but the legs, some bones of the hand and the fifth vertebra of the spine are broken.

She will have to go through ten operations. She cannot move.

"She got the helmet and that was the last thing before going up."

In a statement, Mr Joy Peru expressed "regret" for what happened and said it is conducting an investigation.

Ariana loses her grip and falls to the floor (Dave Rudge)

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It added they will continue to "provide support to the girl and her family".

Shopping centre Real Plaza - where the theme park is based - told Peruvian newspaper El Comercio it will provide "all the facilities for the authorities to carry out the necessary investigations".

It added: "Our policy is to ensure the welfare and safety of our visitors and this guideline is passed on to all tenants, demanding strict compliance with safety regulations."

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