Crush survivors in Ivory Coast tell of barricades, disaster
Posted: January 3, 2013 at 12:58 a.m.
Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year’s Eve fireworks display said Wednesday that makeshift barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people.
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