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Dozens of people have died in a crush following clashes at a football match in Guinea\u2019s second-largest city, Nz\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9, local media report.<\/strong><\/p>\n Prime Minister Mamadou Oury Bah said a \u201cstampede\u201d at the event led to a number of victims on Sunday and called for calm.<\/p>\n One doctor, who did not want to be named, told AFP news agency that there were \u201cbodies lined up as far as the eye can see in the hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cOthers are lying on the floor in the hallways. The morgue is full,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Reuters news agency quotes the government as saying that around 56 people have been killed.<\/p>\n Local media said police had used tear gas after supporters of the visiting team, Lab\u00e9, threw stones towards the pitch in anger at the referee.<\/p>\n \u201cIt all started with a contested decision by the referee. Then fans invaded the pitch,\u201d one witness told AFP.<\/p>\n Videos and images on social media appear to show chaotic scenes outside the stadium, with large crowds attempting to climb over walls and numerous bodies on the ground.<\/p>\n Some of those lying unresponsive on the ground appear to be children.<\/p>\n Regional authorities are working to \u201crestore calm\u201d, Prime Minister Bah said in a statement, and added that hospitals were aiding the injured.<\/p>\n Thousands of spectators were present when the crush happened at a match between Nz\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9 and Lab\u00e9, local news website MediaGuin\u00e9e reported.<\/p>\n It said Sunday\u2019s match was part of a tournament in honour of President Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power in a coup in September 2021.<\/p>\n In recent months there has been increased scrutiny of powerful figures in Guinean football.<\/p>\n In July, Aboubacar Sampil, who is president of the country\u2019s football body Feguifoot, became the subject of an investigation into corruption and violence in football.<\/p>\n A junior colleague accused Mr Sampil, who also leads the board of directors for local team ASK, of facilitating violence and trying to influence referees at a match that ASK was losing 0-1 to Milo FC.<\/p>\n The latter team had to abandon the game and had trouble leaving the ground safely, according to documents filed to Feguifoot\u2019s ethics body.<\/p>\n Among other things, Mr Sampil has also been accused of bypassing protocol and unliterally appointing people to jobs.<\/p>\n He has always denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Dozens killed in crush at Guinea football match<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Dozens of people have died in a crush following clashes at a football match in Guinea\u2019s second-largest city, Nz\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9, local media report. Prime Minister Mamadou Oury Bah said a \u201cstampede\u201d at the event led to a number of victims on Sunday and called for calm. One doctor, who did not want to be named, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}