Barikad Crew accident on final day of parade
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Following the incident, the final day of the parade was cancelled; Prime Minister Evans Paul declared three days of mourning and later on that day, President Michel Martelly joined hundreds of people who gathered at the accident site. A state funeral was organized after the mourning on Saturday 21st. President Michel Martelly had expressed his "sincerest sympathies'' to the victims in a Twitter message. Sophia Martelly, the First lady visited the hospitals that were treating the injured.
It is a common practice in Haiti and elsewhere, during similar carnivals people standing atop a parade float move low hanging power lines with poles. In a similar incident on the same day, three people were killed on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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