{"id":45807,"date":"2026-04-12T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45807"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:09:24","slug":"stampede-at-haiti-fort-kills-at-least-30-local-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/stampede-at-haiti-fort-kills-at-least-30-local-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampede at Haiti fort kills at least 30: local media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 12:<\/strong> A stampede at an historical fortress in Haiti killed at least 30 people on Saturday, local media reported, with the government expressing &#8220;deep sadness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials said in a statement posted on the Haiti government&#8217;s Facebook page that the incident happened Saturday at the Citadelle Laferriere in Milot during &#8220;a tourist activity bringing together many young people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean Henry Petit, head of the civil protection office in Northern Haiti, told local newspaper Le Nouvelliste that at least 30 people were killed at the 19th-century fortress designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p>Petit said the toll could rise, however, due to the large number of people reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>Several dozen people were also injured and taken to hospital, the outlet reported without giving an exact figure.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports said visitors were crammed against a single entrance and a scuffle broke out between people trying to leave and enter the site.<\/p>\n<p>AFP has contacted the Haiti government for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The government urged citizens to &#8220;be calm and cautious&#8221; while it investigates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All competent authorities are fully mobilized and placed on maximum alert to provide, without delay, the necessary assistance, care and support,&#8221; it added in its statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 12: A stampede at an historical fortress in Haiti killed at least 30 people on Saturday, local media reported, with the government expressing &#8220;deep sadness.&#8221; Officials said in a statement posted on the Haiti government&#8217;s Facebook page that the incident happened Saturday at the Citadelle Laferriere in Milot during &#8220;a tourist activity bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45809,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions\/45809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}