By AFPMore by this AuthorLUANDAAt least 17 football fans died in a stampede at a stadium in northern Angola on Friday, police said, adding that scores of other spectators were injured, many of them seriously. He added that there were an unknown number of children among the dead, and that hospitals were treating those injured. "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. 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: Daily Nation February 11, 2017 05:18 UTC