Authorities are promising to track down those responsible for a crowd crush at a soccer game in El Salvador that killed 12 people. jekearsley 9News MORE:
pushed through one of the access gates at a quarter-final match in the Salvadoran league.
"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. 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.
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.Fans take to the field of Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, May 20, 2023.
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