Four children die in Haiti school collapse

A MUDSLIDE in northern Haiti has caused the partial collapse of a school, killing four children and injuring two others, a Haitian civil protection official said today.

“The accident was caused by four days of rain that caused a mudslide,” said the official on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to give out the information.

He said the school in Cap-Haitien partially collapsed, leaving “four dead and two injured”.

All were children, he said.

The accident brought further catastrophe to a country already struggling to recover from last month’s massive earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.

Haiti’s north was largely unaffected by the quake. Cap-Haitien, Haiti’s second city, is located on the northern Atlantic Coast, some 250km away from the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince.

The government began allowing schools outside of areas hard-hit by the earthquake to reopen at the start of February.

Source: news.com.au