12 at least people About 100 seriously injured people died in Stampede at a football stadium in El Salvador director of civil defense The agency, Luis Alonso Amaya, said late Saturday.
Police said earlier that at least nine people were killed in Stampede.
The injured were taken to hospitals near the Cuscatlan stadium in the capital is san salvador, with At least two in critical condition, the police tweeted earlier.
the match The match between FC Alianza and CD FAS was cancelled, as rescuers rushed to save lives.
The accident happened fans Try to enter the stadium. “It all started in Sol General Sector, where there is mass panic due to the overnumber of Tickets sold out, affecting 500 people, Amaya said.
Local newspaper La Prensa Graphica reported this fans He had complained about the field already crowded with a lot people waiting to receive it in.
There were only two gates open in the whole stadium,” one fan said. “the people outside wanted to force they way inthey all fell on us, the fan told the newspaper.
said Sandra Argueta, another fan children and the elderly people The gate swayed and had to be kicked down To get some air Because there were many of people And we were choking.”
The newspaper described the panic of the crowd on Sidelines of the first-division match “A human avalanche.”
