One killed, 5 hospitalized from cable electrocution in Haiti market
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E-mailPORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 19 (Reuters) - One person was killed and five more were hospitalized on Thursday in Haiti's Petion-Ville, a suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince, when a high-voltage cable snapped in a public marketplace, electrocuting those below, a judicial officer said.
The condition of the people taken to hospital remained unclear, local judicial officer Eno Rene Louis told Reuters.
(Reporting by Harold Isaac and Sarah Morland, Editing by Daina Beth Solomon)
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