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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Feb 17, 2015
• Comments : 1
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : REUTERS By Amelie Baron
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 17 (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed and 60 injured early on Tuesday when a carnival float hit a power line in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, officials said.
  
  Most of the victims were trampled to death in a stampede after the float struck a high-voltage overhead power cable, witnesses said.
  
  Amateur video of the incident posted on YouTube showed the electric cable catching a popular singer known as Fantom on the float as it passed near the presidential stand packed with spectators.
  
  Seven people on the float were electrocuted, and others died in the ensuing panic. Fantom, part of the hip-hop band Barikad Crew, was among the injured, according to one of his friends.
  
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