Two girls were hospitalized after they were thrown from a Ferris wheel on Saturday afternoon at a festival in Louisiana, authorities said. One suffered broken bones and the other may have bleeding in her brain, CBS News Chicago reported.

Photos and video taken at the scene appeared to show the Ferris wheel — at the annual Harvest Festival in New Roads, some 40 miles northwest of Baton Rouge — paused mid-ride with one of the baskets that seat riders tipped upside down.

Witnesses told CBS affiliate WAFB that the girls were ejected from the basket while the Ferris wheel was rotating. Two girls fell at least 20 feet onto a steel platform below, while a third clung to the basket, which was suspended about 15 feet in the air.

"As it was going around, it was just like, stuck at an angle

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