Stampede at Haitian mountaintop fortress kills at least 25 people and injures dozens

A stampede astatine a mountaintop fortress fashionable with tourists successful bluish Haiti has killed astatine slightest 25 radical and injured dozens of others, authorities said, revising an earlier, higher fig of fatalities.

Municipal authorities successful the metropolis of Cap-Haïtien, successful a statement, said that Saturday's (April 11, 2026) stampede successful Milot "resulted successful galore cases of asphyxiation, trampling and nonaccomplishment of consciousness." Authorities said dozens of radical who attended accepted festivities astatine the humanities tract were taken to hospitals portion galore others were reported missing.