16 children, 1 adult injured in fall at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg

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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

Two police vehicles are pictured behind a fence and sign which reads 'Fort Gibraltar.'
Several police vehicles sit near Fort Gibraltar at Whittier Park in Winnipeg on Wednesday morning. (Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada)

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 bus-like vehicle that says 'Emergency Medical Services' on the side is stopped on the street next to a building with a hospital sign that says 'Children's Emergency Urgence-Enfants.'
An Emergency Medical Services vehicle sits outside the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital emergency room shortly before noon. (Travis Golby/CBC)

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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