Wednesday morning around 9:00 am, a truck whose brakes failed, struck and destroyed the perimeter wall of the Assumption Mixed College located at Stret Beauvais (Delmas 105, not far from Saint-Jean Bosco church in Pétion-ville), when students were on the college courtyard...

The partial assessment is heavy at least 6 victims were removed from under the rubble : 1 student died, 4 others were injured as well as an adult. 3 students were rushed to two hospitals by the Haitian Red Cross. Two other victims who were seriously injured, a pupil Pierre Marc Webens (5 years old) and Julienne Chéry (70 years old), were transferred to Bernard Mevs hospital.

Dominique St Roc the Mayor of Pétion-ville went there to talk and tried to comfort the parents of the young victims.

TB/ HaitiLibre