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                    18 Dead in Haiti Carnival Float Accident

   by VOA News

   At least 18 people were killed and 60 injured early Tuesday in the
   Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, when a carnival float hit power lines
   on the second day of the annual festival, officials said.
   According to witnesses, the float caught fire after it hit a
   high-voltage overhead power cable. Video of the incident appeared to
   show the electric cable catch the head of a singer from the hip-hop
   band Barikad Crew.
   Seven people were reported dead on the float, and others were killed in
   the ensuing panic.
   President Michel Martelly expressed his "sincerest sympathies'' to the
   victims in a Twitter message.

   ''The three-day carnival festivities began Sunday under the theme "Nou
   Tout Se Ayiti" (we are all Haiti).
   The national carnival returned to Port-au-Prince for the first time in
   four years this year, after officials decided to allow Haiti's
   provinces organize festivities instead during the past years in Les
   Cayes, Gonaives and Cape Haitian.
   Officials in Port-de-Paix, in the northwest asked officials to provide
   extra security in the town during carnival.

   [Some material for this report came from Reuters. ]
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