GONAIVES, HAITI — A bus plowed into a crowd of people participating in a parade in Haiti on Sunday, killing at least 34 people. <br /> <br />The incident took place at 3.a.m. in Gonaives, a city some 150 km northwest of the capital Port-au-Prince. <br /> <br />The bus first plowed into two pedestrians at a bus stop, killing one and injuring another. The driver then rammed the bus into a crowd of people attending a Rara parade while he tried to flee, killing 34 people. The Rara parade is a traditional Haitian street music festival. <br /> <br />“The people who were not victims of the accident tried to burn the bus with the passengers inside,” Faustin Joseph, civic protection coordinator for the department of Artibonite told AFP. <br /> <br />Police initially said they had detained the bus driver, but several news outlets have reported that the driver had fled the scene and has not been found. <br /> <br />It was not immediately clear what caused the accident.
