61 killed in New Year’s stampede in Ivory Coast
By The Associated Press
This article was published January 1, 2013 at 8:49 a.m.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Authorities said at least 61 people were killed early Tuesday in a stampede following a New Year’s fireworks display in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial center.
State radio and a fire department rescue worker, who refused to give his name, said that many more people were injured in the Plateau district of Abidjan as the event ended about 4 a.m.
The worker said a crowd of thousands gathered at the Houphouet Boigny Stadium to see the fireworks and after the display the crowd became a crush in which people were trampled.
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