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. 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. They say the accident happened on the ride known as the "Sizzler." 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. 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. 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. That'll be revealed in the investigation," said El Paso Police spokesman Sgt. Carrillo said the three females are between the ages of 15 and 18. The El Paso Police Department's Crime Against Persons unit has been called in to the scene.
– 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.