News · 12 April 2026
30 Dead at Haiti's UNESCO Fortress After Crush
SPC Gibran Torres, United States Army via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
At least 30 people, many of them young, were killed and others injured in a crowd crush at a popular tourist site in Haiti. The stampede occurred on Saturday at Citadelle Henri, a 19th-century mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti. Culture Minister Emmanuel Menard confirmed the deaths and announced the UNESCO World Heritage Site is closed until further notice.
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