The parents of a boy who fell from an elevated walkway that collapsed during a school field trip earlier this year are suing the city and the Festival du Voyageur, saying their son might be permanently disabled after the fall.
The parents allege their son required surgery after falling roughly five metres and fracturing his hip and right wrist in an incident at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface area that sent 17 children and one adult to hospital.
He also had serious physical complications from the injuries and will still need to undergo more surgeries and incur extra medical expenses, a statement of claim filed
