17 children, 1 adult injured after walkway collapses during school trip to Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg

Eighteen people, 17 of them children, were taken to hospital after many of them fell about five metres from an elevated walkway at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface area on Wednesday.

Jason Shaw, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service assistant chief, said the accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. He said three of the children were taken to hospital in unstable condition, while the remaining patients were in stable condition.

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.

Tameem Aljafari, 10, said he was among three classes of Grade 5 students