New Year stampede kills 60

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NEW YEAR ACCIDENT. UN peacekeepers stand on a street in Abidjan as shoes and various items are seen on the pavement at the scene of a stampede, on January 1, 2013. At least 60 people died and at least dozens were injured as crowds stampeded overnight during celebratory New Year's fireworks, Ivory Coast rescue workers said on January 1, 2013. AFP PHOTO/HERVE SEVI
New Year celebrations in Ivory Coast turned into a tragedy. At least 60 people – many of them children – were crushed to death and dozens more were injured in a stampede Tuesday after a fireworks show in Abidjan.  The New Year fireworks was meant to be a continuing celebration of the country’s renewal under President Alassane Ouattara after the violent post-election year crisis from 2010 to 2011. The governmetn has declared a 3-day national mourning.


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