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17 dead in stampede at Angolan soccer stadium


At least 17 football lovers died in a stampede at a stadium in northern Angola on Friday, police stated, including that rankings of different spectators had been injured, some of them severely.

Panic spread thru the gang at the suit within the metropolis of Uige among Santa Rita de Cassia and Recreativo de Libolo in Angola’s domestic league season.

“there was a blockage at the entrance to the January 4 stadium… this obstruction brought about a couple of fatalities — 17 deaths, and there are fifty six injured within the hospital,” police spokesman Orlando Bernardo instructed AFP.

He added that there have been an unknown variety of kids most of the useless, and that hospitals have been nevertheless treating the ones injured.

Police said hundreds of enthusiasts had tried to go into the already packed stadium to see the match, inflicting a crush that driven a few people to the floor.

Among the useless were trampled on or suffocated.

In 2009, bad crowd manipulate in Abidjan induced 19 deaths earlier than a 2010 international Cup qualifier among hosts Ivory Coast and Malawi.

A stampede on the Accra sports Stadium in Ghana in 2001 led to 127 deaths.

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