Current Events from Mrs. Countryman's World History class at Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Carnival Parade Gone Wrong: Reagan Leslie
It was about 3:00 in the morning in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The people in the parade were celebrating the first day of Mardi Gras. All of a sudden, while the singers are performing on a float, one of the singers hit an electrical line and it sparked. About 16 people on the float got electrocuted by the line. The ambulances came quickly and got the injured people off the float. In a video that was shown, you can see the chaos the people were experiencing. Sadly, they had to cancel the three days of celebration, but instead mourn of the ones lost.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/world/haiti-carnival-deaths/index.html
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I feel bad for Haiti because they just wanted to celebrate Mardi Gras, and now they can't anymore.
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