Two football players are among 27 people killed in riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said, the area’s director of hospitals said.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death on charges related to one of the world’s deadliest incidents of soccer violence, which killed 74 mostly teenage fans of Egypt’s most popular sports club last year.

Fans charged over Egypt’s deadliest football riot have protested their innocence at the opening of their trial, turning their anger on police widely believed to have helped in the killing of 75 members of a rival club.