PORT-AU-PRINCE – A truck loaded with rubble from Haiti’s earthquake two years ago killed at least 26 people and injured 57 after its driver lost control of the vehicle in a hilly area of the impoverished Caribbean nation’s capital.
The incident came less than a week after the second anniversary of the quake that killed roughly 300,000 people and levelled much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
“Between 26 and 30 people have been killed and 57 injured. We are looking for the driver,” said highway police chief Will Dimanche after the incident in the Delmas district of the city.
“Witnesses say he [the driver] jumped from the truck after hitting the first obstacle but we’ll find him anyway,” Mr Dimanche added.
The truck sped down a divided two-lane road and ploughed past parked cars, motorbikes and mopeds.
There were no immediate reports about the cause of the incident but speculation centred on brake failure in the rubble-laden vehicle. – (Reuters)