Stadium exit gates too small for escape, say Indonesian police

Stadium exit gates too small for escape, say Indonesian police
A man stands near a broken gate at Kanjuruhan Stadium (Achmad Ibrahim/AP)

Indonesian police have said that the gates at the football stadium where officers fired tear gas and set off a deadly crush were too small and could only accommodate two at a time when hundreds were trying to escape.

Photos from the Malang stadium where 125 people died and hundreds were injured on Saturday night, in one of the world’s worst crowd disasters in sports, showed four connecting doors forming one gate.

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