Clashes in the stadiums, the great tragedies

The throng at a stadium for a football match in eastern Indonesia, which has claimed at least 130 deaths, is the latest in a long series of stadium tragedies.

These are the most serious:

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- May 24, 1964: 320 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in a crowd during the Peru-Argentina Olympic qualifiers at the National Stadium in Lima.

The fans could not escape the throng and were trampled or asphyxiated. 

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- 20 October 1982: The mystery still surrounds the total number of deaths at the end of a Uefa Cup match between Spartak Moscow and the Dutch of Haarlem at the Luzniki Stadium, due to a crowd in the stairwell.

Officially this is 66 people, including 45 teenagers, but according to the newspaper Sovietski Sport the number of victims was much higher, with 340 deaths. 

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- May 9, 2001: 126 people died in Accra at the end of a match between Hearts of Oaks and Kumasi, when Kumasi fans, enraged by the defeat of their team, threw bullets and broke chairs.

The police threw tear gas grenades, sparking a stampede.

- England - April 15, 1989: A mob in the stands at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium kills 97 Liverpool fans during the FA Cup semi-final with Nottingham Forest.

On May 11, 1985, 56 people were killed in a fire in the wooden stands during a match between Bradford and Lincoln City.

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- October 16, 1996: About 80 spectators lost their lives after being crushed by fans who had crowded into a grandstand of the Mateo Flores National Stadium for qualification for the 1998 World Cup between Guatemala and Costa Rica. 

Scotland

- 2 January 1971: 66 people were killed in a mob at Ibrox Stadium during a derby between Rangers and Celtic.

It was the stadium's second disaster, following the collapse of a grandstand in 1902, which claimed 26 lives. 

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- February 1, 2012 - The tragedy at the Port Said stadium in Egypt causes 74 deaths after clashes between rival supporters of the local club Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in Cairo.

On February 17, 1974, 48 people died and 47 were injured when 80,000 people crammed into a stadium with a capacity of 40,000. 

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- April 11, 2001: 43 people die during a mob at the Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg during a game between the Orlando Pirates and the Kaizer Chiefs.

On January 13, 1991, 40 people died in a scrum during the Orlando Pirates-Kaizer Chiefs game.

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- May 29, 1985: 39 deaths at the Heysel stadium in Brussels when Juventus fans tried to escape from Liverpool fans. 

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- May 5, 1992: 18 dead and over 2,300 injured in the collapse of a terrace at the Furiani stadium in Corsica. 

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- January 24, 2022: Eight people are killed and dozens more injured in a crush and a train before the Africa Cup of Nations match between the hosts of Cameroon and the Comoros in Yaounde