Two cousins from Laven­tille suf­fered se­vere in­juries dur­ing an in­ci­dent in which they were pinned be­tween two trail­ers on Car­ni­val Mon­day in Port-of-Spain.

The women, aged 23 and 24, of Up­per St Barb’s Road, Laven­tille, were par­tic­i­pat­ing in the J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions in St James, when around 9 am, two bands at­tempt­ed to pass each oth­er along Damien Street.

As one of the DJs urged rev­ellers to move to the left of their re­spec­tive trucks, the women al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to cross be­tween the two trail­ers. In do­ing so, they were pinned be­tween the trail­ers.