FOG BLOG CANADA LOG: 16 CHILDREN , 1 ADULT INJURED AT FORT GIBRALTAR IN WINNIPEG, ON SCHOOL TRIP!

16 children, 1 adult injured during school trip to Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg It just started cracking,' says St. John's-Ravenscourt student who was on walkway Seventeen people, 16 of them children, were taken to hospital after many of them fell about 5 metres at Fort Gibraltar in St. Boniface on Wednesday, emergency officials say.

"Today at 9:55 a.m., we received a 911 call at Whittier Park for a school group that fell," Jason Shaw, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service assistant chief, told reporters on Wednesday.

Three of the children were taken to hospital in unstable condition; the other 13 children and the adult were in stable condition, he said. A doctor at the Children's Hospital later said only one child would have to be kept overnight for orthopedic surgery.

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.

The parents and families of the injured children have been contacted, the Winnipeg private school said. The other students on the field trip returned to school and their parents have been called to retrieve them.

'It just started cracking'

Tameem Aljafari, 10, said he was among three classes of Grade 5 students who were on a field trip at Fort Gibraltar on Wednesday, and about 30 people were walking on a bridge inside the building when it fell.

"Randomly, it just started cracking when we were on it, and then a lot of people just fell down," he told reporters outside Winnipeg's Children's Hospital.