The National Civil Police announced in a preliminary report via Twitter (blocked in the Russian Federation) nine deaths during a match between the clubs Alianza and FAS at the Monumental stadium in Cuscatlán, located about 41 kilometers northeast of the capital .
“We can confirm nine deaths – seven men and two women. We have treated around 500 people and more than 100 have been transported to hospitals, some of them in stable serious condition,” said Carlos Fuentes, spokesman for the local emergency service. says AP. At least two of the injured were taken to hospital in critical condition, police said.
Play was suspended around the 16th minute of the match, when the fans in the stands, waving their hands desperately, began to attract the attention of players, referees, coaches and carry the injured in the crushing of the bleachers in the field.
Local television broadcast the aftermath of the Alianza fan stampede live. Dozens of people went to the field, where they received medical assistance. Fans who had escaped the crush stood on the pitch furiously waving their shirts, trying to help people who were lying on the grass barely moving. National Civil Police commissioner Mauricio Arrisa Chicas, who arrived at the scene of the tragedy, said a criminal investigation would be carried out in collaboration with the Attorney General’s office.
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