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Several killed in mass stampede

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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti,Apr. 12, CMC –  At least 30 people, many of them school-age children as young as 12, have died after a gathering promoted on TikTok turned tragic on Saturday at Haiti’s historic mountaintop fortress.

Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé confirmed the deaths, saying the government is mobilizing the Ministry of Health and judicial officials to respond to the disaster.

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