Winnipeg officials inspect city-owned site where 17 children were injured during school field trip

Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham said the city was reviewing the site at Fort Gibraltar along with provincial Workplace Safety and Health workers Thursday morning. “I’m hoping to get more information as to when the last inspection was,” Gillingham told reporters. 17 schoolchildren and one adult were taken to hospital after falling 4 1/2 to six metres inside Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg. Early initial reports were that 16 children had been injured in the fall, but officials later updated that total to 17. All the children are reportedly between 10 and 11 years old and were students at St. John’s-Ravenscourt School.