Earlier yesterday, a car violently struck a group of people celebrating Christmas in the K-Soleil neighborhood, Gonaïves, seriously injuring 18 boys and girls, some as young as 13 years old.

Two young people died on the scene Robenson Ulcera (23 years old) and Jean-Fito Marc (27 years old).

Civil Protection intervened quickly to transport the wounded to the hospital of La Providence.

The Justice of the Peace Me Blondel Petit-Frère accompanied by agents of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) has drawn up the legal statement, he considers possible that the driver was under the influence of alcohol or that the brakes of the vehicle have dropped, what the expertise will determine.

The causes of the accident remain for the moment unknown, the driver of the vehicle responsible for this tragedy, having fled...

TB/ HaitiLibre