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Indonesian football officials jailed over deadly stadium crush

Indonesian police fire tear gas following the Arema vs Persebaya match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java province, Indonesia, on October 2, 2022 [File: Antara Foto/Ari Bowo Sucipto/Reuters]

A court in Indonesia has sentenced two match officials to jail after finding them guilty of negligence over a crush in a football stadium that left 135 people dead, in one of the world’s worst sporting disasters.

The crush took place in October 2022 when a tense match in Malang, East Java, between bitter rivals Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos, with a pitch invasion and police firing volleys of tear gas. Amid the suffocating smoke, people rushed for the exits only to find some of them locked resulting in a deadly crush.

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