Victims say Ivory Coast stampede caused by unofficial barricades in the road
Mariame Kanfando, 10, with her father, wait outside the morgue in in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, in an attempt to get the bodies of her mother and two sisters killed in a stampede on new year's eve. 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 at a stadium said Wednesday that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of national mourning and launched an investigation into to the causes of the tragedy but two survivors, in interviews with The Associated Press, indicated why so many died in what would normally be an open area, the Boulevard de la Republic. An estimated 50,000 people had gathered in Abidjan's Plateau district to watch the fireworks.
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Ouattara
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| 0 | "The investigation must take into account all the testimonies of victims," he said ... |
| -0.0486652 | "The investigation must take into account all the testimonies of victims," he said Wednesday. "We will have a crisis center to share and receive information." |
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Zoure Sanate
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| 0.0708964 | "Near the Justice Palace we were stopped by some people who put blockades of wood in the street," 33-year-old Zoure Sanate said ... |
| -0.312401 | "They told us we must stay in the Plateau area until morning. None of us accepted to stay in Plateau until the morning for a celebration that ended at around 1 a.m. "Then came the stampede of people behind us," she said. ... |
| -0.225142 | "They told us we must stay in the Plateau area until morning. None of us accepted to stay in Plateau until the morning for a celebration that ended at around 1 a.m. "Then came the stampede of people behind us," she said. "My four children and I were knocked to the ground. I was hearing my kids calling me, but I was powerless and fighting against death. Two of my kids are in hospital with me, but two others are missing. They cannot be found." |
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Thierry Legre
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| -0.528037 | "The situation is deplorable," said Thierry Legre, ... |
| -0.270044 | "The situation is deplorable," said Thierry Legre, president of the Ivorian League of Human Rights. "It is our first tragedy of 2013 but in 2012 we could already see possibility of such a tragedy because there are not adequate authorities patrolling our roads and waters." |
| -0.0560458 | Legre said the New Year's stampede "exposes our weak and dysfunctional civil protection system. This must be corrected immediately. The government cannot invite people to this kind of public gathering without taking adequate precautions to protect their safety and their lives." |
| 0.167758 | He called on the government "to implement measures to avoid such tragedies in the future by reinforcing the civil protection system." |
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Mariame Kanfando
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Brahima Compaore
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| 0 | "I found myself on the ground and people were walking on me," said Compaore. |
| 0 | "I found myself on the ground and people were walking on me," said Compaore. "I was only saved by people who pulled me onto the sidewalk." |
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Alassane Outtara
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| 0.0965152 | "For security, because there were so many important people at the event, we closed certain main streets," said a police officer who was overheard briefing Ivory Coast President Alassane Outtara ... |
| 0 | "After the fireworks we reopened the other streets, but we had not yet removed the tree trunks from the Boulevard de la Republic, in front of the Hotel Tiana near the National Assembly (parliament) building," she said. ... |
| -0.455048 | "After the fireworks we reopened the other streets, but we had not yet removed the tree trunks from the Boulevard de la Republic, in front of the Hotel Tiana near the National Assembly (parliament) building," she said. "That is where the stampede happened when people flooded in from the other streets." |
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Faustino Sebastiao
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Chris Brown
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Country: Ivory Coast
Overall Sentiment: -0.446989
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City: Abidjan
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Facility: Houphouet Boigny Stadium
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Holiday: new year's eve
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Company: The Associated Press
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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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