A 7-year-old child is in critical condition after being injured by a metal object while playing in the yard of a house in Massueville, Montérégie, Monday afternoon.
Posted at 5:23 p.m.
The circumstances surrounding the tragedy are still unclear. Around 2:40 p.m., the Sûreté du Québec emergency services were called to a child who was injured by a “metal object” while playing with other children in the yard of a house. .
The accident happened on rue Montcalm, one of the main roads in Massueville, in Montérégie. A few hundred people live in this village, located between Montreal and Trois-Rivières.
The 7-year-old was taken to hospital in critical condition.
No other information on the object in question or the nature of the victim’s injuries was available at the time these lines were written, said Stéphane Tremblay, spokesman for the Sûreté du Québec.
An investigation is underway to clarify the circumstances surrounding the event.