Officials said many killed at popular tourist site were young, with more people reported injured or missing
At least 30 people, many of them young, have died and dozens more are reported to have been injured after a crush at a mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti that is a popular tourist spot.
Jean Henri Petit, the head of civil protection for the country’s Nord department, said the incident took place on Saturday at Citadelle Henry, also known as Citadelle Laferrière, a large 19th-century fortress built shortly after the Caribbean country’s independence from France.
He told the local newspaper Le Nouvelliste that the death toll could rise due to the large number of people reported missing. Several dozen people were taken to hospital, the outlet reported.
Initial reports said visitors were crammed against a single entrance and a scuffle broke out between those trying to leave and enter the site.
