Ivory Coast stampede survivors blame barricades

By INZA BAKAYOKO • Published: January 3, 2013

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — 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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