Seventeen people, 16 of them children, were taken to hospital after an incident in north St. Boniface on Wednesday.
3 children taken to hospital in unstable condition, Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service chief says
Seventeen people, 16 of them children, were taken to hospital after an incident at Fort Gibraltar in St. Boniface on Wednesday.
“Today at 9:55 a.m., we received a 911 call at Whittier Park for a school group that fell,” Jason Shaw, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service assistant chief, told reporters on Wednesday.
One adult was injured and the rest were children age 10 and 11, he said. Three of the children are in unstable condition; the rest are stable.
The group fell about 15 to 20 feet inside Fort Gibraltar, Shaw said.
Police are helping emergency responders at the north St. Boniface historic site on Wednesday morning, Winnipeg police Const. Claude Chancy said.
A large Emergency Medical Services vehicle was seen outside the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital emergency room shortly before noon on Wednesday.
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