Around 27,000 kids who were brought in with free tickets by the organisers on Friday, fought for basic amenities like water. The bottles were not allowed inside the stadium and thus the children were made to suffer. The other spectators also suffered as there was no water in the toilets as well. "We know that there were issues with the distribution of water for the first match day of the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 in New Delhi. "We will be working as hard as possible with all facility owners to ensure that drinking water is readily available for all spectators from here on," it added.

Source: India Today October 07, 2017 16:52 UTC