About 60 people were crushed to death outside a stadium after a New Year’s Eve fireworks display, officials said.

Ivorian officials Tuesday said that they were baffled as to what set off the stampede, which happened as revelers were leaving a sprawling downtown stadium.

Increasingly, the rangers, many in their 40s or 50s, are finding themselves wading into the bush to confront hardened soldiers working as ivory poachers.

Gunmen drove into Tahrir Square in Cairo on Monday and fired at an antigovernment sit-in, seriously wounding a protester.