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Indonesia: Many of the victims were trampled or choked to death, according to police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At least 174 people died at an Indonesian football stadium when thousands of angry home fans invaded the pitch and police responded with tear gas that triggered a stampede, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n

“At 9:30 am (0230 GMT) the death toll was 158, at 10:30 am the figure rose to 174 deaths. That’s the data collected by the East Java disaster mitigation agency,” East Java deputy governor Emil Dardak told broadcaster Kompas TV<\/p>\n

The tragedy on Saturday night in the eastern city of Malang, which also left over 180 injured, was one of the world’s deadliest sporting stadium disasters.<\/p>\n

Police, who described the unrest as “riots”, said they tried to force fans to return to the stands and fired tear gas after two officers were killed.<\/p>\n

Many of the victims were trampled or choked to death, according to police.<\/p>\n

Survivors described panicking spectators in a packed crowd as tear gas rained down on them.<\/p>\n

“Officers fired tear gas, and automatically people were rushing to come out, pushing each other and it caused many victims,” 43-year-old spectator Doni, who declined to give his last name, told AFP.<\/p>\n

“Nothing was happening, there was no riot. I don’t know what the issue was, they suddenly fired tear gas. That’s what shocked me, didn’t they think about kids, women?”<\/p>\n

President Joko Widodo ordered an investigation into the tragedy, a safety review into all football matches and directed the country’s football association to suspend all matches until “security improvements” were completed.<\/p>\n

“I deeply regret this tragedy and I hope this football tragedy will be the last in our country,” Widodo said.<\/p>\n

A hospital director told local TV that one of the victims was five years old.<\/p>\n

Images taken from inside the stadium during the stampede showed police firing huge amounts of tear gas and people clambering over fences.<\/p>\n

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#WATCH<\/a> | At least 127 people died after violence at a football match in Indonesia, last night. The deaths occurred when angry fans invaded a football pitch after a match in East Java<\/p>\n

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People were carrying injured spectators through the chaos.<\/p>\n

Video footage circulating on social media showed people shouting obscenities at police, who were holding riot shields and wielding batons.<\/p>\n

Torched vehicles, including a police truck, littered the streets outside the stadium on Sunday morning. Police said 13 vehicles in total were damaged.<\/p>\n

The stadium holds 42,000 people and authorities said it was a sell-out. Police said 3,000 people stormed the pitch.<\/p>\n

“We would like to convey that… not all of them were anarchic. Only about 3,000 who entered the pitch,” Afinta said.<\/p>\n

– Enduring violence –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fan violence is an enduring problem in Indonesia, where deep rivalries have previously turned into deadly confrontations.<\/p>\n

Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya are longtime rivals.<\/p>\n

Persebaya Surabaya fans were not allowed to buy tickets for the game due to fears of violence.<\/p>\n

However Indonesia’s coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Mahfud MD, said organisers ignored the recommendation of authorities to hold the match in the afternoon instead of the evening.<\/p>\n

And he said the government had recommended only 38,000 tickets be printed, but there was instead a sell-out crowd of 42,000.<\/p>\n

“The government has made improvements to the implementation of football matches… and will continue to improve. But this sport, which is a favourite of the wider community, often provokes supporters to express emotions suddenly,” he said in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n

Before Widodo’s announcement, the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) suspended football matches of Indonesia’s top league, BRI Liga 1, for one week.<\/p>\n

It also banned Arema FC from hosting home games for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

“We’re sorry and apologise to families of the victims and all parties over the incident,” PSSI chairman Mochamad Iriawan said.<\/p>\n

The chief of the Asian Football Confederation, the governing body for football in the region, expressed his regret at the loss of lives in the disaster.<\/p>\n

“I am deeply shocked and saddened to hear such tragic news coming out of football-loving Indonesia,” AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim<\/p>\n

(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n