3 Killed on Same Night at Amusement Park

MASON, Ohio — Two men were apparently electrocuted in a pond at Kings Island amusement park, and a woman fell to her death from a ride the same night.

The two men who died, one of them a park employee, apparently were trying to rescue another man in a pond near a beer garden. The third man also was believed to have been shocked, but survived, a park spokeswoman said. Officials were not sure of the source of the electricity.

In a separate accident, a woman was killed in a fall from the Flight Commander ride, a space-type capsule that the rider controls. A shoulder harness and a lap bar hold passengers in their seats. “It’s a mystery right now exactly what happened,” a park spokesman said.