Bus plows into crowd in Haiti, killing at least 38

A car that was hit by a bus early Sunday in Haiti.
(Image credit: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)

A bus driver fleeing from an accident ran into a crowd in northern Haiti early Sunday, leaving at least 38 people dead and about a dozen injured, government officials said.

The bus was headed to Port-au-Prince from Cap-Haitien. The driver first hit two people in a town outside Gonaives, an official told Reuters, killing one, then took off. The bus went about three miles into Mapou before it crashed into three parades made up mostly of musicians; 34 people were killed at the scene and four more died at the hospital.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.