At least 17 football fans died in a stampede at a stadium in northern Angola, police said, adding that scores of other spectators were injured, many of them seriously. "There are already 17 confirmed dead and at least 59 wounded... (this was) a tragedy without precedent in the history of Angolan football." Football has a tragic history of stampedes and stadium deaths, often blamed on lack of crowd control, dangerous venues and spectator behaviour. A stampede at the Accra Sports Stadium in Ghana in 2001 resulted in 127 deaths. In May 1964, 320 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured during a stampede at a Peru-Argentina match at Lima's National Stadium.

Source: dna February 11, 2017 01:40 UTC