Egypt's army, police blamed for deadly soccer riot

Cairo : Egypt | Feb 02, 2012 at 11:56 AM PST

By sanabukhari

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The Witnesses who are watching this says that array of Egyptian soccer admirers were stabbed to afterlife while others suffocated and trapped in a continued attenuated aisle aggravating to abscond battling admirers armed with knives, clubs and stones in the country's affliction anytime soccer violence. At atomic 74 bodies died and hundreds were afflicted afterwards Wednesday's bold in the bank burghal of Port Said, back annoyed admirers of the home team, Al Masry, rushed the pitch, ambience off clashes and a charge as anarchism badge abundantly bootless to intervene. Ahmed Ghaffar, one of the visiting Al Ahly admirers at the stadium, says "layers of people" were ashore aggravating to escape, "suffocating central a attenuated corridor." Activists accept accused the badge and aggressive of declining to arbitrate to deepen alternation and anarchy in Egypt, a year afterwards adjournment of longtime adjudicator Hosni Mubarak.

sanabukhari is based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and is a Stringer for Allvoices.

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