(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130102-abidjan-01.photoblog600.jpg)Issouf Sanogo / AFP - Getty ImagesA pile of abandoned shoes in the street of Abidjian, Ivory Coast, on Wednesday. Sixty-one people died in a stampede at a New Year's Eve celebration there that also left dozens injured.By The Associated PressABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/01/16281135-new-years-tragedy-dozens-killed-in-stampede-after-ivory-coast-fireworks?lite), 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.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of national mourning and launched an investigation into 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.
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