73 killed as riot erupts at soccer match

Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history.

73 killed as riot erupts at soccer match

It was the deadliest incident of football violence since Oct 16 1996, when 78 died and 180 were injured in a stampede in Guatemala City before a World Cup qualifier between Guatemala and Costa Rica.

Angry politicians and sports officials decried a lack of security at the match between Port Said team al-Masry and Al Ahli, blaming the nation’s leaders for allowing — or even causing — the tragedy.

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