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FarCenter

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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 07:14 PM Feb 2012

Scores dead in violence after Egyptian football match

At least 50 people were killed and hundreds of others injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, health ministry sources said, in an incident that one player described as “a war, not football”.

The game was between Al Ahli, one of Egypt’s most successful clubs, and al-Masry, a team based in Port Said. Live television footage showed fans running onto the field and chasing Ahli soccer players.

Ahli player Mohamed Abo Treika described the violence as war as Masry fans invaded the pitch after the referee blew the whistle, even though the team had beaten Ahli 3-1.

“This is not football. This is a war and people are dying in front of us. There is no movement and no security and no ambulances,” Abo Treika told the Ahli television channel. “I call for the premier league to be cancelled. This is horrible situation and today can never be forgotten.”

http://www.france24.com/en/20120201-scores-killed-after-egypt-football-match-port-said

If they don't stop we should bomb them.

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Scores dead in violence after Egyptian football match (Original Post) FarCenter Feb 2012 OP
DUPE - PLEASE SEE THIS THREAD. tabatha Feb 2012 #1
Please show me the photos/video of thousands of tanks and troops surrounding the football stadium tabatha Feb 2012 #2

tabatha

(18,795 posts)
2. Please show me the photos/video of thousands of tanks and troops surrounding the football stadium
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 07:24 PM
Feb 2012

ready to raze the population of 1+ million people for daring to support an uprising.

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