More than 70 die in Egyptian soccer pitch invasion [Reuters]

Posted on 02 February 2012  · Categorized in Disasters, Politics, Sports

(Reuters) – Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history. Violence at football matches across north Africa has increased significantly since political unrest began sweeping the [...]

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