27 killed in Haiti in major road accident

Port Au Prince, Haiti: Hospital officials said at least 27 people were killed in a major road accident in Haiti when a truck carrying people overturned on a highway south of Haiti’s capital, a CMC report said.

““Seriously injured people have passed away, and we have other people in critical condition…by now, we have counted 27 dead,” Joel Charles, Hospital Director in the town of Petit-Goave, said via phone.

Earlier reports put the death toll at 20, while 40 were reported injured.

The accident occurred late Saturday afternoon when a truck carrying small retail traders, many of them women, tipped over on National Highway 2, near a community known as Morne Tapion, according to the CMC report.