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astinkyfart 01-Jan-13, 09:44	60 dead ABIDJAN (Reuters) - About 60 people were crushed to death in a stampede outside a stadium in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan after a New Year's Eve fireworks display, the government said on Tuesday. The incident took place near Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium where a crowd had gathered to watch fireworks, emergency officials said. One of the injured, speaking to Reuters at a hospital, said security forces had arrived to break up the crowd, triggering a panic in which many people fell over and were trampled. "The provisional death toll is 60 and there are 49 injured," Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said in a statement broadcast on national television. President Alassane Ouattara, visiting injured people at the hospital, called the incident a national tragedy and said an investigation was underway to determine what happened. A Reuters correspondent said blood stains and abandoned shoes littered the scene outside the stadium on Tuesday morning. "My two children came here yesterday. I told them not to come but they didn't listen. They came when I was sleeping. What will I do?" said Assetou Toure, a cleaner. She did not know if her children had escaped unhurt. The incident was the worst of its kind in Abidjan since 2010, when a stampede at a stadium during a football match killed 18 people. Ivory Coast, once a stable economic hub for West Africa, is struggling to recover from a 2011 civil war in which more than 3,000 people were killed. People die in all kinds of ways.
changeling 01-Jan-13, 17:07	stinky Informative post, crass last comment.
astinkyfart 01-Jan-13, 18:46	Crass? When did you become so sensitive? I didn't say glad they died, or tough luck.
changeling 01-Jan-13, 19:08	Deleted by changeling on 01-Jan-13, 19:10.
changeling 01-Jan-13, 19:12	stinky with all the hype going on in these threads of late about gun control/limits. It is quite obvious where this was heading by your last comment "...People die in all kinds of ways..."

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