![]() ![]() “We are going to investigate from the ticket sales, the entries into the stadium, but especially the southern zone,” where, he said, the gate was pushed open. National Civil Police Commissioner Mauricio Arriza Chicas, at the scene of the tragedy, said there would be a criminal investigation in conjunction with the Attorney General’s Office. Others managed to make it to the stands and then to the field and were smothered,” an unidentified volunteer with the Rescue Commandos first aid group told journalists. ![]() Some were still under the metal in the tunnel. “It was an avalanche of fans who overran the gate. Pedro Hernández, president of El Salvador soccer's first division, said the preliminary information he had was that the stampede occurred because fans managed to push through a gate into the stadium. Fans who escaped the crush stood on the field furiously waving shirts attempting to review people lying on the grass barely moving. Dozens made it onto the field where they received medical treatment. Local television transmitted live images of the aftermath of the stampede by Alianza fans. Play was suspended about 16 minutes into the match, when fans in the stands waving frantically began getting the attention of those on the field and carrying the injured out of a tunnel and down to the pitch. ![]() “We can confirm nine dead - seven men and two women - and we attended to more than 500 people, and more than 100 were transported to hospitals, some of them were serious,” Fuentes said. ![]()
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