{"id":30155,"date":"2016-11-09T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dreamworld-australia-thunder-river-rapids-ride-to\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T01:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:27:45","slug":"dreamworld-australia-thunder-river-rapids-ride-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dreamworld-australia-thunder-river-rapids-ride-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamworld Australia: Thunder River Rapids ride to be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The owners of Australia&#8217;s Dreamworld theme park have announced they will demolish the water ride where four people were killed last month.}<\/p>\n<p>Two of the victims were thrown from a raft at the Thunder River Rapids ride and two others were trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Ardent Leisure said decommissioning the ride was &#8220;the only respectful and appropriate course of action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamworld, on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast, has been closed since the tragedy on 25 October.<\/p>\n<p>The firm says it will not reopen until an independent safety review has been completed.<br \/>\nKate Goodchild, 32, died alongside brother Luke Dorsett, 35, his partner, Roozbeh Araghi, 38, and Cindy Low, 42.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamworld CEO Craig Davidson said every ride was undergoing a thorough safety check.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From today, we will begin to move towards the re-opening of Dreamworld,&#8221; he told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please be assured that as we begin this process, families who lost their loved ones will remain our first and foremost focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family have paid tribute to all four victims over the past week at a series of funeral ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of respect for the memories of Cindy Low, Roozbeh Araghi, Kate Goodchild and Luke Dorsett, and their deeply affected families, the ride will be permanently decommissioned,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The company also indicated that the victims&#8217; families would be invited to help create a &#8220;fitting and permanent&#8221; memorial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16282 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92315959_gettyimages-618711172.jpg\" alt=\"The tragedy had shocked people across Australia\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The owners of Australia&#8217;s Dreamworld theme park have announced they will demolish the water ride where four people were killed last month.} Two of the victims were thrown from a raft at the Thunder River Rapids ride and two others were trapped inside. Ardent Leisure said decommissioning the ride was &#8220;the only respectful and appropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}