Image copyright Family handout Image caption Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction 
 
 An 11-year-old girl who was killed in a fall from a water ride has been named. 
 
 Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction during a school trip to Drayton Manor Theme Park in Staffordshire on Tuesday. 
 
 The pupil, from Leicester, was rescued from the water and taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later. 
 
 A statement released by Evha's family said their "world was torn apart" following her death. 
 
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 They described her as "a beautiful little girl who was full of love and always smiling". 
 
 "Words cannot describe the pain and loss we feel, we are devastated that we will not see our beautiful little girl again." 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Drayton Manor: Latest aerial footage shows empty rides 
 
 Police said it was an "extremely difficult time" for Evha's relatives and the force was providing support. 
 
 The theme park remained closed for the day as "a mark of respect". The girl's school, Jameah Girls Academy in Leicester, was also closed. 
 
 In a statement, the Islamic day school asked that the Year 6 pupil's family and school community be given "time to grieve". 
 
 Head teacher Erfana Bora said Evha was a "lovely, sweet-natured girl [who] was loved by everyone at the school". 
 
 "We are trying to make sense of this terrible tragedy. Our thoughts and our prayers are with Evha's family," she added. 
 
 Image caption Drayton Manor Theme Park was closed for the day as a "mark of respect" 
 
 Image copyright ThemeParks.ie Image caption Splash Canyon opened in 1993 and features up to 21 boats 
 
 Prayers have been said for the girl at the Jameah Mosque in Leicester. 
 
 Staffordshire Police said a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation had begun. 
 
 The ride, which opened in 1993 and features up to 21 boats each with a capacity of six people, closed following the incident at the park near Tamworth. 
 
 It offers a "a wild ride" with "fast-flowing rapids" and riders must be at least 0.9m (3ft) tall to board, although those under 1.1m must be accompanied by an adult. 
 
 On Tuesday, park company director George Bryan, whose grandfather opened the site in the 1950s, said he was "truly shocked and devastated" by the death. 
 
 'Really dangerous' 
 
 West Midlands Ambulance Service said it sent paramedics by land and air to the site. 
 
 Image caption Tributes have been left at Drayton Manor Park in memory of Evha Jannath 
 
 A spokesman said crews discovered a girl "with serious injuries who had been rescued from the water by park staff". 
 
 She was flown to Birmingham Children's Hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Ride death girl was 'sweet-natured' 
 
 Zainab Mohammad said her 16-year-old sister, who was on the same school trip, was devastated. 
 
 "She came home, she spoke to mum and dad and she just went upstairs. 
 
 "She was devastated. She didn't want to talk about it. The school is not very big, everybody knows each other. 
 
 "We don't know what the cause is but what we really want is for the family to be able to grieve. 
 
 "A family member has been ripped from their family and it's a big loss. Everybody is in utter shock, there are no words." 
 
 Image caption The girl's school was also shut for the day 
 
 Image caption Prayers have been said for Evha at the Jameah Mosque in Leicester 
 
 Vikki Treacy told BBC 5 live her son fell in the water on the same ride in 2013. 
 
 She said Patrick, who was 10 at the time, "sort of stood up" for a photo and toppled from the boat. 
 
 The mother, from Rugby, said: "When you are queuing up, the loudspeakers are telling you the safety instructions, like please stay seated. 
 
 "[But] they're getting excited and giddy, they're not listening to a tannoy are they? 
 
 "[After he fell] I panicked and a woman... in the spectators' bit, hopped over a fence at the side and dragged him out. 
 
 "My son was in an area where the public could get to him. It's a dangerous ride. It really is. 
 
 "I'll never go back to the park. No way. Their aftercare was shocking." 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Drayton Manor: Mum watched son fall head-first into water 
 
 Drayton Manor said it could not comment on the claims while the Splash Canyon investigation was ongoing. 
 
 A spokesman added: "The health and safety of our visitors is of paramount importance and we'd ask Vikki contacts us direct so that we can address her concerns." 
 
 Theme park enthusiast Ian Bell, who owns rollercoaster fan group Coasterforce, said rapids rides like Splash Canyon tended not to have seatbelts in case they capsized. 
 
 "They are fairly buoyant; they rarely capsize. They are very safe," he added. 
 
 Rides similar to Splash Canyon have been closed at other theme parks. Thorpe Park's Rumba Rapids was closed on Wednesday. 
 
 Meanwhile, Alton Towers said it would be closing its Congo River Rapids ride as a "precautionary" measure. 
 
 In a statement the park said: "We are aware of the tragic events at Drayton Manor and our thoughts are with the family and all of those affected. 
 
 "Safety is our number one priority and, as a precautionary measure, the Congo River Rapids will be closed tomorrow and until such time as more details of the incident become available." 
 
 Image copyright Vikki Treacy Image caption Vikki Treacy (right) said son Patrick (left) fell in the water on the same ride in 2013 
 
 Health and safety lawyer Chris Green told BBC Radio 5 live he had been on the ride with his daughters and had never thought it could be dangerous. 
 
 He said the HSE would need to establish if the accident was work-related. 
 
 "They'd be firstly trying to understand from witnesses precisely how this has happened and that will determine whether it's them in conjunction with police, whether that's a report for the coroner or for other proceedings as well." 
 
 The death at Drayton Manor is thought to be the first at a UK theme park since 2004, when a 16-year-old girl fell from the Hydro ride at Oakwood theme park near Tenby, west Wales. 
 
 In June 2015, five people were seriously injured in a collision on the Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers, also in Staffordshire. 
 
 Mr Green said: "The Alton Towers scenario looked more perhaps as if something inevitably looked like it hadn't worked on the day. This one [at Drayton Manor] may be rather different." 
 
 In October 2016, four people died on a rapids ride at Australia's Dreamworld, on Queensland's Gold Coast. ||||| Story highlights Theme park temporarily closed after 11-year-old girl dies on water ride 
 
 Similar ride came under scrutiny when four people died at an Australian theme park last year 
 
 (CNN) An 11-year-old girl on a school trip died after she fell from a water ride at a UK theme park, local police have confirmed. 
 
 The incident happened at the Splash Canyon ride at Drayton Manor theme park, north of Birmingham, Staffordshire Police said. 
 
 "It is with great sadness we have to report that a young girl has passed away at Birmingham Children's Hospital following an incident on one of the park's water rides this afternoon," George Bryan, company director of Drayton Manor Park, said in a statement. 
 
 Bryan added that staff were alerted when the girl fell into the water. "The theme park staff tried to help her and an air ambulance airlifted her to a hospital nearby," he said. 
 
 The girl, a student at the Jameah Academy in Leicester, was on a school visit to the park when the incident occurred. The school released a statement confirming that the year 6 student had died. 
 
 Read More ||||| Police say raft on Thunder River Rapids ride flipped over on conveyor belt seconds from end of journey 
 
 Two children who were in the accident at the Dreamworld theme park that killed four adults had a “miracle” escape, Queensland police said on Wednesday. 
 
 The ride on the Thunder River Rapids at the Gold Coast theme park flipped as it was travelling on a conveyor belt at the end of the water-based ride about 2pm on Tuesday. Two adults became trapped under the six-person raft and two were caught in the conveyor belt. 
 
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 They have been identified as brother and sister Luke Dorsett, 35 and Kate Goodchild, 32, and Dorsett’s partner, Roozi Araghi, 38. All three are from Canberra. 
 
 The fourth woman is Cindy Low, 42, originally from Kawerau in the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, who lived in Sydney with her family. Fairfax Media reported she was on the raft with her 10-year-old son while her partner and daughter were in another raft. 
 
 A statement issued on behalf of Low’s partner, Mathew, said the Low family was “devastated by the tragic loss”. 
 
 “The family are traumatised, and kindly request that their privacy be respected as they try to come to terms with this tragic loss,” the statement said, adding they would not make any further statements “in this time of intense grief”. 
 
 The other child in the raft was a 12-year-old girl, understood to be Goodchild’s daughter. Both children were physically unharmed but were traumatised and are in hospital and have been offered counselling. 
 
 Brian Codd, acting police commissioner for Queensland’s south-east region, said: “Maybe through the providence of God or somebody, but it seems from what I’ve seen almost a miracle that anybody came out of that,” he said. “If we’re going to be thankful for anything, I’m thankful for that.” 
 
 
 
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 Codd said the raft, or “flume”, which looks like six chairs arranged in a circle on a giant inner tube, “turned over and flipped, resulting in it falling back on top of those persons and those persons being variously caught in machinery”. 
 
 “One [raft] has flipped backwards and it has caught and tossed some of the people that were on the ride backwards on the conveyor belt,” he said. 
 
 
 
 He declined to go into any more detail but said the scene was so traumatic that it had a “deep and emotional effect” on police and paramedics. . 
 
 “I guess the fortunate thing here is that the two children managed to escape that disaster … Unfortunately, the four adults did not,” Codd said. 
 
 Goodchild had two daughters, aged eight months and 12 years. Her mother, Kim Dorsett, told the Courier-Mail that Goodchild’s oldest daughter was blaming herself. “She has had a truly terrible day. She is going through unimaginable pain at the moment,” she said. 
 
 Dorsett said she was devastated that her youngest grandchild would never know her mother. “I have three children and have lost two of them today – my whole family has been wiped out,” she said. 
 
 Codd said police had become used to dealing with tragedies such as fatal road accidents “but coming to a place where families want to come and enjoy each other’s company and just have fun doesn’t really equate to such a tragedy as we’ve seen”. 
 
 He added: “Many of our officers have families. I don’t think there’s any of our officers who haven’t [been affected by] aspects of what’s happened here. 
 
 “We owe it to the deceased and their families, we owe it to the community of Queensland, to get to the bottom of what caused this, to hold accountable any person that needs to be held accountable for this occurring, if that is the case, but most particularly ensuring that this can never happen again.” 
 
 The ride, which sends passengers around a 410-metre course of artificial rapids, was one of the oldest and most beloved in the park. It opened in 1986 and was described as one of the park’s family rides, offering a “moderate thrill” suitable for children as young as two. 
 
 The water was drained as part of rescue efforts on Tuesday. 
 
 Codd said he was aware of reports suggesting concerns had been raised about the ride in the past and said all such reports would be examined as part of the coronial investigation. 
 
 Engineers were scheduled to examine the mechanism, including the conveyor belt, on Wednesday, and investigators would also check the maintenance schedule and see whether the park had complied with its own policies. 
 
 “These types of investigations are not quick,” he said. “They take a lot of time and, unfortunately, some of that time might not be at a speed that keeps up with the media cycle. 
 
 “But I hope that you can understand that, for us, the importance is not speed, but thoroughness. It is absolutely vital that we get to the bottom of all aspects of this very, very complex tragedy.” 
 
 Some parkgoers said the ride had broken down twice earlier in the day. 
 
 Police have asked anyone who was on the ride when the tragedy occurred or earlier that day to send in any footage or photos they may have taken. 
 
 Detective Inspector Mark Thompson told reporters on the Gold Coast on Thursday that would not go into details about the investigation, saying it was “inappropriate ... when it comes to the ride or its structure or other issues surrounding the ride itself.” 
 
 But also would not say how long the theme park would remain closed, adding: “the gathering of scientific evidence will be lengthy and detailed and it would be wrong for me to speculate.” 
 
 Reports that Goodchild’s partner was robbed as he tried to assist her were false, he said. 
 
 The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, said the tragedy had deeply affected the Gold Coast community. “There’s been thousands, thousands of families that have been on that ride,” she told ABC’s AM. “My own family, we went on that ride ourselves just earlier this year.” 
 
 Palaszczuk said claims by the Australian Workers’ Union that it had raised concerns about the safety and maintenance of rides at the park on behalf of staff last year would be investigated. 
 
 “We need to get to the bottom of this, honestly. We need to make sure that no stone is left unturned because this is an awful, awful tragedy and we want to ensure that this never happens again,” she said. 
 
 Flowers began arriving at the site on Wednesday and Lifeline has set up a dedicated support line for people affected by the tragedy.
– Police in Britain are investigating the tragic death of an 11-year-old girl on a water ride at the Drayton Manor theme park. Officials at the park say the girl, who was on a school trip, was fatally injured when she fell from the Splash Canyon ride on Tuesday afternoon, CNN reports. The ride, which is billed as featuring "fast-flowing rapids," has 21 boats with a capacity of six riders each, reports the BBC. Witnesses say Evha Jannath, who was on her last ride of the day, stood up to change seats and fell in after the boat hit a rock. A classmate tells the Telegraph that Evha almost missed the trip after turning up in the wrong clothes, but she was allowed to borrow an acceptable outfit from the school.