Seventeen people, 16 of them children, were taken to hospital after they fell 15 to 20 feet at Fort Gibraltar in St. Boniface on Wednesday, emergency officials say.
Posted: May 31, 2023 12:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
The children are 10- and 11-year-olds from St. John's-Ravenscourt School who were on a field trip, the school confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. Aljafari received scratches, but said the people who were under the bridge were more seriously injured.RAW VIDEO: Students arrive at Winnipeg Children's Hospital after serious incident at Fort Gibraltar
"I don't think it overall had a huge impact, but there was definitely a period of time where everything was on hold just to make sure we knew what we were dealing with."
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