Indonesia: Scenes of chaos as riot police fires teargas into a packed football stadium
Channel: Perseus999
Date: 2022-10-02

At least 125 people were killed and 323 were injured on Saturday night (1 October 2022), during a football game at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, Indonesia (East Java) when the riot police fired tear gas into the packed football stadium, causing panic amongst the crowd and setting off a stampede.

The deadly incident took place after the home team Arema FC lost 3-2 in a top league Liga 1 match against their regional rival, Persebaya Surabaya. It was then that the home crowd, nicknamed Aremania, took to the pitch to express their frustration. 

The toll made Saturday’s match amongst the deadliest in the history of soccer. The deadliest football game took place in Lima, Peru in 1964 when more than 300 people were killed and more than 500 injured when again the police fired tear gas grenades, driving panicking crowds into locked exit corridors, but an unknown number were also shot by the police.

[Video posted on Reddit by u/belivoucher]