Ivory Coast Stadium Stampede Kills 60

Around 60 people have died and dozens been injured in a New Year's Eve stampede at a stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

It happened after crowds gathered to watch a fireworks display.

Rescue official Lieutenant Colonel Issa Sako said: "There are around 60 dead and about 200 injured, this is a provisional estimate."

Another official told reporters that 61 people had died and 48 were hurt.

Many of those injured are believed to be children.

Lt Col Sako said the number of people trying to get into the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium to watch the fireworks had caused the accident.

He said: "In the crush people were walked over and suffocated by the crowd."

One local woman, Assetou Toure, said her children had been at the event and she did not know if they had survived.

"My two children came here yesterday. I told them not to come but they didn't listen," she said.

"They came when I was sleeping. What will I do?"

A Reuters correspondent said there were bloodstains and abandoned shoes outside the stadium on Tuesday morning and that rescue workers and government officials were still on the scene.

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