“The death toll at 9:30 am (0230 GMT) was 158, with the figure rising to 174 at 10:30 am. This is data collected by the East Java Disaster Mitigation Agency,” Dardak told reporters.
The Indonesian government later reduced the toll to 125.
The Football League suspended play for at least a week.
The sport is the most popular sport in the country and violence around the game has been constant, with huge crowds leading to bitter clashes between local rivals in the 18-team top-flight league. But the sport has regularly turned fatal from hooliganism, heavy policing and mismanagement with rivalries in Indonesia’s top flight.
Since the 1990s, dozens of fans have been killed in football-related violence. According to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corp, between 1994 and 2019, 74 fans died in football-related violence. However, Sunday’s death toll has made the match at Kanjuruhan Stadium one of the deadliest episodes in football history. In a televised speech to the nation, President Joko Widodo said he had asked the national police chief to conduct a thorough investigation into what happened.
He said he had also ordered the Minister of Youth and Sports, the National Police Chief and the President of the Football Association of Indonesia to evaluate security at football matches.
What happened?
After a 3–2 loss to Arema Football Club Persebaya Surabaya, the first loss to their bitter rival in more than two decades, dozens of fans flocked to the field at Kanjuruhan Stadium, Arma’s home.
Video footage from local news channels showed images of people running on the pitch at Malang’s stadium and carrying body bags.
The unrest prompted police to fire tear gas shells, triggering panic, IG nico afintaEast Java police chief said at a news conference.
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On Twitter, a user uploaded a video that showed fans erecting a fence while trying to escape from clouds of tear gas. In the video people are seen cursing the police.
What caused the stampede?
After the match in East Java province between Arema FC And as Persebay Surabaya ended, supporters of the losing team invaded the pitch and police fired tear gas, leading to a stampede and cases of suffocation.
Hundreds of people ran towards an exit door in an attempt to escape the tear gas.
Some suffocated and others were trampled, killing 34 people almost immediately.
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“There was a pile-up,” East Java police chief Nico Afinta told the media. “The buildup process resulted in shortness of breath and lack of oxygen.”
He further said that many people were crushed to death and suffocated when they ran towards an exit.
‘Excessive use of force and more capacity was the reason’
“The excessive use of force through the use of tear gas and improper crowd control was the cause of a large number of deaths,” Indonesia’s Legal Aid Foundation said in a statement.
The group said, “The use of tear gas that was not in accordance with crowd control procedures resulted in supporters standing for the exit door, causing them to have shortness of breath, fainting and colliding with each other.” Went.”
East Java’s police chief Afinta defended the use of tear gas, saying it was deployed “because of the chaos”.
“They were about to attack the officers and damaged the cars,” he said.
Indonesia’s Legal Aid Foundation said the problem was made worse by overcapacity.
Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD said the local football committee had printed 42,000 tickets, which is more than the stadium’s 38,000 capacity.
He said the victims died “due to the stampede”. He said he was crushed and died of suffocation. “There has been no victim of supporters beating or misbehaving,” he said.
Afinta told a news conference that the medical team carried out rescue operations at the stadium and then moved others to several hospitals.
What did the officials say?
– police
Police, which characterized the unrest as “riots”, tried to persuade fans to return to the stands and fired tear gas after two officers were killed.
According to the police, several victims were crushed to death.
“Thirty-four people died inside the stadium and the rest died in hospital,” East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta said in a statement on Sunday.
– Government of Indonesia
The Indonesian government apologized for the incident and promised to investigate the circumstances surrounding the stampede.
Indonesia’s Minister of Sports and Youth said, “We are sorry for this incident… It is a regrettable incident that our football has been ‘injured’ at a time when supporters can watch football matches from the stadium.” zainuddin amliq told broadcaster Compass.
Amli said the ministry would re-evaluate security at football matches, including considering not allowing spectators in stadiums.
“We will thoroughly evaluate the organization of the match and the attendance of supporters. Will we go back to banning supporters from participating in matches? That’s what we’ll discuss.”
– Football Association of Indonesia
The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) suspended football matches for a week, banned Arema FC from hosting home games for the rest of the season, and said it would set up an investigation team to establish the cause of the crush. Will send
PSSI president Mochamad Iriyawan said, “We apologize and apologize to the families of the victims and all parties involved in this incident.”
Fan Violence, a Problem in Indonesia
In what appears to be one of the world’s worst stadium disasters, images taken from inside the stadium show massive amounts of tear gas and people climbing fences during the stampede.
People were carrying injured spectators amid the commotion.
On Sunday morning, fire-laden vehicles, including police trucks, were scattered on the streets outside the stadium.
FIFA communicates with the Football Federation of Indonesia
The International Football Federation (FIFA) has communicated with the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) following a fatal stampede at a match in Java.
PSSI Secretary General Yunus Nusi said that FIFA had requested a report on the fatal incident in the Javanese city of Malang and that a PSSI team had been sent to the site to investigate.
Major Football Stadium Tragedy
24 May 1964
320 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured during a stampede at the Peru-Argentina Olympic qualifiers at the National Stadium in Lima. The fans could not survive the crush and were crushed or suffocated.
October 20, 1982
– Mystery still surrounds the total number who were killed at the end of a UEFA Cup match as a result of a crush in a ladder between Spartak Moscow and Dutch side Haarlem at the Luzhniki Stadium. Officially it remains at 66 – 45 teenagers – but according to the daily newspaper Sovietsky Sport the number was much higher, with 340 killed.
9 May 2001
– At the end of a match between Hearts of Oaks and Kumasi in Accra, 126 people died when Kumasi supporters, enraged by their team’s defeat, threw projectiles and broke chairs. The police fired tear gas shells, which led to a stampede.
15 April 1989
– 97 Liverpool fans were killed during the FA Cup semi-final with Nottingham Forest after a crush in the stands at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield Wednesday.
11 May 1985
– During the match between Bradford and Lincoln City, 56 people died in a fire in a wooden stand.
16 October 1996
– About 80 spectators lost their lives after being crushed by fans at the Mateo Flores National Stadium for the 1998 World Cup qualifier between Guatemala and Costa Rica.
2 January 1971
During the Rangers-Celtic derby, 66 people were killed in a crush at Ibrox Stadium. It was the stadium’s second disaster, after a stand collapsed in 1902, killing 26 people.
February 1, 2012
– The Port Said stadium tragedy in Egypt killed 74 people after clashes between rival sets of supporters of local club Al-Masri and Cairo-based Al-Ahli.
February 17, 1974
48 people were killed and 47 were injured when 80,000 people entered the stadium with a capacity of 40,000 people.
11 April 2001
43 people died in a stampede during the match between Orlando Pirates and Kaiser Chiefs at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg.
13 January 1991
40 killed during a scuffle in the Orlando Pirates-Caesar Chiefs match.
May 29, 1985
– 39 killed at Hessel Stadium in Brussels when Juventus fans try to run away from Liverpool fans.
5 May 1992
A roof collapsed at the Furiani Stadium in Corsica, killing 18 people and injuring more than 2,300.
24 January 2022
Eight people were killed and dozens injured in a crush and stampede ahead of an African Cup of Nations match between hosts Cameroon and Comoros in Yaonde.
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