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| Scores killed in Ivory Coast fireworks stampede | |
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| About 60 people have been 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 incident took place near Félix Houphouët-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," the interior minister, Hamed Bakayoko, said in a statement on national television. | |
| President Alassane Ouattara, visiting injured people at the hospital, called the incident a national tragedy and said an investigation was under way to determine what had happened. | |
| A Reuters correspondent said bloodstains and abandoned shoes littered the scene outside the stadium on Tuesday morning. | |
| 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. |