BBC News, I am John Shay.

At least 60 people have been killed and many more injured in a crush after a New Year Eve fireworks display in Ivory Coast. Officials say most of the victims were aged between 13 and 18. The incident happened near a stadium in the main city Abidjan. Our international development correspondent Mark Doyle who was based in Abidjan for many years has this report.

There was a surge of people near the national football stadium where the fireworks were being let off. Men, women and many children fell. Some were crushed, others suffocated. The battered bodies of survivors were taken to several hospitals, but there are critically injured people among them. Politicians were quickly on the scene of the tragedy offering sympathy and promising to pay the medical bills of the injured. The people of Ivory Coast all want to know why the security forces failed to control the crowds.

Police in Pakistan say five teachers and two health workers have been shot dead by unidentified gunmen. A police chief in Swabi in northwest Pakistan said the staffs were attacked as they drove away from the community center where they worked. The head of the organization running the center told the BBC's News Hour its staff provided health services including vaccinations and education for women. Aleem Maqbool reports from Islamabad.

They just finished work for the day at community center, five teachers all women in their early 20s and two health workers. They were being driven home when gunmen pulled up alongside on a motorbike and sprayed the vehicle with bullets until all seven were dead. No group has yet said they carried out this horrific attack or given any reason why charity workers have been killed in this way. But the head of the group with which they worked suspects that because of the vaccination program the center ran. Two weeks ago, nine people involved in polio immunization in Pakistan were shot dead in different parts of the country. Militants have long denounced the vaccination drive as a western plot.