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Bob MarleyJamaican reggae musician, songwriter, and singer Bob Marley performs onstage, in a concert at Grona Lund, Stockholm. Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesRobert Nesta Marley was born February 6, 1945 in the village of Nine Mile to Cedella Malcolm, a 19-year-old Black Jamaican woman, and Capt. The Jamaican reggae artist has been credited with making Jamaican music more popular worldwide. His greatest hits album "Legend" — which was released posthumously — remains the best-selling reggae album of all time, and Marley still ranks among the best-selling musicians of all time. Marley's life is dramatized in a new biopic called "Bob Marley: One Love," starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the music icon.
Persons: Bob Marley, Robert Nesta Marley, Malcolm, Norval Marley, Marley, , Peter Tosh, Bunny Waller, Tosh, Waller, Eric Clapton, Rita, Gibson Les Paul, Edward Seaga, Kingsley Ben, Adir Organizations: Grona, Hulton, Island Records, Wailers, Jamaican Locations: Grona Lund, Stockholm
STOCKHOLM, June 25 (Reuters) - One person was killed and nine injured, including children, in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday, representatives of the park said. Eyewitnesses said the park's Jetline roller coaster had partly derailed during a ride, sending people crashing to the ground. The park spokesperson said 14 people were on the roller coaster when the front part partially derailed. [1/7]Emergency services attend the scene following a fatal accident that took place on the roller coaster Jetline at the Grona Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden, June 25, 2023. "My husband saw a roller coaster car with people in it falling to the ground," Lagerstedt said.
Persons: Grona Lund, we've, Jan Eriksson, Grona, Eriksson, Marie Mannes Jenny Lagerstedt, Lagerstedt, Parisa Liljestrand, Liljestrand, Marie, Terje Solsvik, Emelia Sithole, Frank Jack Daniel Our Organizations: Police, Grona Lund, REUTERS, SVT, Sweden's, TT, Marie Mannes, Thomson Locations: STOCKHOLM, Lund, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish
People visit Grona Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden, September 5, 2009. A fatal accident took place on the park's roller coaster Jetline on June 25, 2023, according to local media. A roller coaster train derailed in Stockholm on Sunday, sending some passengers plunging to the ground in an amusement park accident that left one dead and nine injured, police and park officials said. Witness Ziba Assadi told Swedish broadcaster TV4 that she was standing just below the Jetline roller coaster when she saw the wheel assembly of one of the cars crashing to the ground. Opened in 1883, Gröna Lund is Sweden's oldest amusement park.
Persons: Witnesses, Jan Eriksson, Ziba Assadi, Assadi, Gröna Lund, Annika Troselius Organizations: TV4, Police Locations: Lund, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish
[1/2] Police officers work at the scene after a roller coaster accident took place at an amusement park, according to the police, in Stockholm, Sweden, June 25, 2023. Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency/via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM, June 25 (Reuters) - One person was killed and several injured in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday, the TT news agency reported, citing a park spokesperson. Public broadcaster SVT, citing eyewitnesses, said the park's Jetline roller coaster had partly derailed during a ride. "My husband saw a roller coaster car with people in it falling to the ground," Lagerstedt said. The steel-tracked Jetline roller coaster reaches a speed of up to 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph) and a height of 30 metres (98 feet), transporting more than one million visitors each year, the amusement park says on its website.
Persons: Claudio Bresciani, we've, Grona Lund, Jenny Lagerstedt, Lagerstedt, Marie, Terje Solsvik, David Goodman, Frances Kerry, Giles Elgood Organizations: Police, TT, Agency, REUTERS, Public, SVT, Marie Mannes, Thomson Locations: Stockholm, Sweden, REUTERS STOCKHOLM, Lund
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