Police said a teenage girl died after being thrown from The Sizzler ride at the St. Thomas Aquinas church carnival. 
 
 A teenage girl died at Del Sol Medical Center after being thrown from The Sizzler ride at the St. Thomas Aquinas Church carnival in east El Paso, police said. 
 
 Two other teenagers were in the ride when the incident happened. One was taken to University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries and the third teenager was not injured, police said. 
 
 Spokeswoman for the El Paso Catholic Diocese Elizabeth O'Hara said the teenager who died was ejected and hit a metal barricade. 
 
 
 
 The church was having its Dia De Los Niños Fiesta on Friday night. 
 
 The El Paso Police Department tweeted about the incident just after 8:30 p.m. 
 
 The father of the girl who was not injured tells reporter Meghan Lopez that the girls go to Hanks High School. He said the teenagers were the only ones on the ride and his daughter did not get ejected from the ride because she hooked her arms on the handle bar and held on. 
 
 The Sizzler is a ride that spins people around a center point but also spins them in their seats. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The company in charge of the carnival rides is Playtime Amusements Inc. Police say the carnivals are regulated by state statutes. 
 
 "There's inspections that are required, whether or not this vendor has been up to par with that hasn't been determined. That'll be revealed in the investigation," said El Paso Police spokesman Sgt. Enrique Carrillo. 
 
 Crimes against persons is investigating the accident, police said. 
 
 In August 2014, two El Paso teenagers were also injured when they fell off a mechanical ride at the St. Anthony Bazaar. The company used in the St. Anthony Bazaar incident was not the same one used in Friday night's carnival at St. Thomas Aquinas, according to O'Hara. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 UPDATE: Authorities have yet to confirm the identity of the 16-year-old girl who was killed at the St. Thomas Aquinas carnival last night, but friends News Channel 9 spoke with on Saturday say the girl who died was Sam Aguilar. Friends say she was a sweet, nice girl who lived life to the fullest. They say she played softball and track at Hanks High School 
 
 El Paso Police say one teen is dead following a carnival ride accident at an East El Paso Church. An EPPD spokesperson confirmed that a 16-year old girl was killed in the accident, and another was injured. 
 
 The accident happened Friday evening at a Dia De Los Niños carnival at St. Thomas Aquinas Church located at 10900 Bywood. They say the accident happened on the ride known as the "Sizzler." 
 
 Sgt. Enrique Carillo says the girl was taken to Del Sol Medical Center where she later died. The second teen was taken to University Medical Center with what appear to be non-life threatening injuries. 
 
 Authorities say three girls were on the ride when two were ejected. According to the aunt of the girl who was not ejected, the three had told the ride operator that the seat belt wouldn't buckle. According to the aunt, the operator told the girls that they were OK. That women also told NewsChannel 9 that only two people were suppose to be inside the ride at a time. She says her niece was holding on to the seat belt for her life. 
 
 The El Paso Police Department's Crime Against Persons unit has been called in to the scene. They say this is all still under investigation. 
 
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 We will bring you more information as it becomes available. ||||| A female teenager was killed Friday night when she was ejected from a spinning carnival ride at an El Paso, Texas, church, local police have confirmed. 
 
 Another female teenager, who also was ejected from "The Sizzler" ride at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, sustained injuries and was rushed to a local hospital. 
 
 A third female teenager, who was not ejected from the ride, was treated at the scene but did not sustain any injuries, El Paso Police Department Sgt. Enrique Carrillo told ABC News. 
 
 The hospitalized teen's condition is unknown. 
 
 CAP responding to St Thomas Aquinas Church 10900 Bywood carnival ride injuries — EL PASO POLICE DEPT (@EPPOLICE) April 30, 2016 
 
 The ride was part of the church's Dia De Los Niños Fiesta festivities. 
 
 At a press conference Friday night, Sgt. Carrillo said the three females are between the ages of 15 and 18. 
 
 Sgt. Carrillo said the accident remains under investigation, and its cause remains to be determined.
– A 16-year-old girl died Friday after being thrown from a carnival ride at a church festival in El Paso, Texas, the El Paso Times reports. According to ABC News, three teen girls were aboard the Sizzler when something went wrong. Two of the girls were flung from the ride; the third managed to stay on by hooking her arms around a handle bar, her father tells KFOX. The 16-year-old hit a metal barricade after being ejected from the ride and died at the hospital. The second teen who was thrown from the ride was also hospitalized with unspecified injuries. The festival was being held at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in celebration of Dia De Los Niños. The three girls were the only ones on the ride at the time of the accident. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, and it's unclear what caused the teens to be thrown from the ride. "There's inspections that are required, whether or not this vendor has been up to par with that hasn't been determined," a police spokesperson tells KFOX. But the aunt of the girl who wasn't thrown from the Sizzler tells KTSM the teens complained to the ride operator that their seat belt wouldn't buckle. She says he told them it would be OK. In 2005, there were approximately 200 Sizzlers—which spin around a central point while also spinning riders in their seats—in the US. The ride has previously been responsible for deaths in Arkansas, Colorado, and elsewhere.