Egypt Footbal Match 70 Dead, Thousands pay Homage at the train carrying Ultra fans from Portsaid
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Fans of Al-Masry, a team based in Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal, invaded the pitch celebrating the team's home win over Al-Ahly, the Cairo-based club that is Egypt's biggest and most successful, and attacked amid what seemed to be an almost total absence of police.
Players fled to their changing rooms, from where the Al-Ahly team called their in-house television channel to give eye-witness accounts and denounce the lack of security.
There were wildly different estimates of casualties, but doctors said they believed 73 were dead.
Meanwhile, the Cairo International Stadium, which Al-Ahly shares with its local rivals Zamalek, was briefly set on fire after the evening game there was cancelled as a mark of respect.
The violence is a telling sign of the lack of security in Egypt following last year's revolution. That was in part triggered by outrage at unchecked brutality by police, and one of the Mubarak regime's first responses was to call them off the streets and put the army in charge of protests
Players fled to their changing rooms, from where the Al-Ahly team called their in-house television channel to give eye-witness accounts and denounce the lack of security.
There were wildly different estimates of casualties, but doctors said they believed 73 were dead.
Meanwhile, the Cairo International Stadium, which Al-Ahly shares with its local rivals Zamalek, was briefly set on fire after the evening game there was cancelled as a mark of respect.
The violence is a telling sign of the lack of security in Egypt following last year's revolution. That was in part triggered by outrage at unchecked brutality by police, and one of the Mubarak regime's first responses was to call them off the streets and put the army in charge of protests
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