Miss World 2013 Megan Young and Miss World CEO Julia Morley suffered serious accident during their Miss World visit in Haiti on Thursday, October 31.
According to Miss World website, Julia Morley and Miss World Megan Young visited an orphanage housing 78 children in Port Au Prince Haiti. The children were in their school class on the second floor of this temporary building. When they saw Miss World in her crown around 20 children rushed toward her. As they came forward the floor collapsed.
Julia and one of the children, Jonathan, suffered fractures after falling through the floor, landing 8 to 10 feet below, being hit by the debris from above. Miraculously, all the other children and Miss World Megan Young escaped either unhurt or with just cuts and bruises, said in report.
"We went into the orphanage hoping for a good day. I was happy that day and the children we were with seemed so full of energy and joy. We get onto this second floor platform, and we aren't even there for a minute and we hear a crack and everybody falls through," Young told pageant officials in a statement on Tuesday.
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The Orphanage at which the floor collapsed.[/caption]"Nothing like that has really happened to me before. It was such a shock. I felt like a deer in the headlights. I didn't really know what had happened or what to do. We had all fallen down, but I was still on my feet. I had the crown in one hand and the other hand instinctively holding up one of the decks in place with two people," Young said.
"There were lots of kids under the decks still and we just instinctively held on. It was such a scary situation for me. It makes you realise there is so much more that should be done for these kids," the Filipina added.
Here's the raw footage of the moment the floor collapsed of an Orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti.
X-Rays revealed that Julia had suffered a significant fracture high in her hip area and that Jonathan had suffered a leg fracture. The local hospital refused to repair hip fractures of Julia causing her to be flown overnight by Air Ambulance from Haiti to Miami. She is currently in Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, after surgeons completed a 5 1/2 hour operation to put her hip back together.
Meanwhile, Jonathan, who suffered from a broken leg, was treated in the local hospital.
"We just hope that Julia recovers from it as quickly as possibly and dear Jonathan. My thoughts are with them at this time. It was a real eye opener and just shows how much work needs to be done in Haiti," Young said.
(Source: Miss World Official Website)
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