First responders work at the center ring after a platform collapsed during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. (AP)
Emergency workers tend to injured performers after a platform collapsed. (AP)
Performers hang during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. (AP)
An injured female performer is lifted onto a stretcher after a platform collapsed during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. (AP)
Emergency personnel attend to injured performers after a scaffolding collapsed during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance in Providence, Rhode Island in this picture provided by Kyle Therrien. (REUTERS)
A scaffolding collapsed during a circus performance injuring as many as 20 performers, nine of them critically, the Providence Fire Department said. (REUTERS)
Emergency personnel attend to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performers who were injured when the scaffolding they were performing from collapsed in Providence, Rhode Island. (REUTERS)
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