2023-05-21 12:11:14
A soccer match in El Salvador turned into a tragedy. It happened last night, while the match between Alianza and FAS was being played, a classic from that country and qualifying for the quarterfinals of the local league, was taking place at the Cuscatlán stadium. The first reports speak of a stampede of fans who tried to enter the field suddenly to witness the match. Given this scenario, the only two access doors were closed. And the human avalanche that claimed the lives of 12 people was generated.
Nothing presaged disaster. Hundreds of fans were imprisoned in different sectors, crushed by those who came behind. Everything, in the midst of a chaotic situation, out of control. So far they mention at least 12 deaths, although it is believed that there would be many more people dead.
Despite the screams of the fans who were being trapped once morest the gates and the walls of the internal corridors of the entrance, the fans who kept coming and wanted to enter did not stop pushing. Drowning, shortness of breath ensued, and many of the people involved went to the floor.
There were also people who, looking for a way to escape, ran into the field of play and had to be attended by medical personnel and even by other fans who offered help when they saw the situation.
More than 20 ambulances are working on the scene. Several injured in critical condition were transferred to different hospitals and the game, logically, was suspended. Preliminarily, the head of the Rescue Command, Carlos Alvarado, reported that more than 100 people have been transferred to various care centers. The Zacamil Hospital, for that matter, is collapsed.
Tragedy in El Salvador: account of a witness who experienced the human avalanche in the Alianza party once morest FAS
One of the fans who had attended the Cuscatlán stadium, who witnessed the events, said in amazement: «The only ones responsible are the leaders of Alianza. Don’t blame people. They were two doors, not a gate, house doors, for 4,000, 5,000 people. It was a quarterfinal match, it was known that a lot of people were going to come. They closed the gate following 25 minutes and people started pushing and pushing because they wanted to watch the game. My son was crushed by 20, I thought he was leaving me. Two doors for 5000 people. The person in charge is Alliance. There are dead people here. Let Alliance take over. I left there to live. There are boys, girls, 6, 7 years old, who are alive by a miracle.
Another of those affected, according to the testimony collected by La Prensa Gráfica, from El Salvador, recounted: «There were only two open doors and all the people pushing, I was in the middle of them all. People wanted to enter, regarding twenty people fell on top of me. I’m barely alive by miracle. It’s all a shame«.
Near him, another of the wounded, crying and with a girl, expressed: «I had to pick up a lady who was being crushed and that lady stayed on the field, I had her daughter hugging and there is the dead lady». Postcards that only reflected the horror of the night.
The National Police of El Salvadorr issued a statement expressing its deep sadness at what happened and offered its condolences to the families affected. A thorough investigation is expected to be carried out to determine the exact causes of the incident and to assess the security measures implemented at the stadium.
The fact, to some extent, It has some similarities with the remembered tragedy at Gate 12 of the River stadium, during a superclassic with Boca, on June 23, 1968.occasion in which unfortunately 71 xeneizes fans died.
Although on that occasion, the event did not occur when they entered the field, but at the moment they wanted to leave and the gate was closed, In addition to not having been removed several of the turnstiles. As a result of suffocation caused by the avalanche, most of the Boca supporters involved in the event died.
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