“At least 16 people were killed during Haiti’s national Carnival parade early Tuesday in an accident involving an electrical shock on a float, government officials said.
An ‘accident following an electrical shock’ happened on a parade float in Port-au-Prince at 2:48 a.m. ET Tuesday, Haitian Communications Minister Rothschild Francis Junior said.”
Source: At least 16 dead in Carnival parade accident in Haiti – CNN.com