Stadium disaster claims lives at football World Cup qualifier match in Ivory Coast
Sunday, March 29, 2009 A stadium disaster has claimed well over a dozen lives in the Ivory Coast. A crush, which may have occurred after a wall collapse, took place today at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan and according to interior minister Desire Tagro killed 22 people and wounded 132 others. Different sources put the dead at 19. “We have 19 dead and many seriously injured,” a member of the military told Reuters. TheContinue reading