Poor little boy and poor family.
A TWO-year-old boy has died after running into the path of a fairground roller-coaster.
Erjon Hyseni jumped off a bouncy castle and clambered through safety barriers on to the track of the children?s ride called Go-Gator.
The machine?s operator tried to shut it down when he saw the toddler running towards it as desperate onlookers shouted out to Erjon.
But it was too late. He suffered multiple injuries when he was hit by the ride. Despite being treated by paramedics at the scene he was declared dead at hospital.
Last night the fair was closed as police and safety investigators began separate inquiries.
Erjon?s father Lulzim, from Kosovo, and his Albanian mother Migena were too distraught to speak about Tuesday evening?s tragedy in Haringey, north London.
But witnesses described how the ?lovely, chatty little boy? died after spotting the ride and making a bee-line for it. They said Erjon was at the fair at Duckett?s Common, with his father, while his mother looked after their five-month-old daughter.
Graham Harper, 31, said: ?He was on the bouncy castle and the next minute he was on the tracks of the Go-Gator ride. There were yellow railings but the child must have got underneath or through them.?
He added: ?The child?s father was extremely distressed and trying to get to his son, but a friend and then later police, restrained him.? Keith Miller, general secretary of the Showman?s Guild, which represents funfairs, said: ?It?s a terrible business, incredibly sad.
?The operator saw him and stopped the ride but unfortunately it was too late.?
Yesterday, the boy?s family and friends laid flowers and tributes at the fair, operated by Hertfordshire-based family firm JEA Manning. A couple who went with Erjon?s parents to the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, where he died, said they were ?in a bad way?.