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Stampede and riot claim dozens of lives at Indonesia football match

Dozens of people were killed in a stampede and riot at a soccer match in Indonesia, officials said on Sunday, in one of the world's worst stadium disasters. When frustrated supporters of the losing home team invaded the pitch in Malang in the province of East Java late on Saturday, officers fired tear gas in an attempt to control the situation, triggering the stampede and cases of suffocation, East Java police chief Nico Afinta told reporters.

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"The Indonesia Football Association may have been negligent for not informing the police that security procedures at a soccer match is not the same as those at a demonstration," he added. Witnesses said fans were not attacking rival supporters. Rather, they were demonstrating their disappointment at the players and officials as they left the pitch.