http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/01/world/africa/ivory-coast-deaths/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
New Year's Stampede
One in the morning on New Year's day, a total of 60 people were killed due to a stampede of people leaving a firework show in Abidjan in Ivory Coast. A total of twenty-six children, twenty-eight women, and six men were killed in addition to 49 other citizens being injured. Reporters claimed that the deaths occurred due to suffocation and being trampled on by other men and women. Almost all the victims were young because they wanted to be apart of the yearly celebration while the elder people stayed home. Police say that there were no other reasons why the stampede occurred other than carelessness and the narrow streets that thousands of people were compacted in.
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That doesn't sound like a fun new years to me...
ReplyDelete@Ben Anderson - please use proper grammar. *year
ReplyDeleteTomato-tomatoe New Year-New Years. That is my proper grammar, you grammar Nazi. Just kidding, I love you Pidarus ;)
DeleteAre you sure that this wasnt black friday? Must have been some pretty crazy fireworks.
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