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Unofficial barriers blamed in deaths

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.

A police officer said the tree trunks were put out unofficially by people who are not known.

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