Egypt: Scores Killed Following Soccer Match in Port Said

February 01, 2012 from ITN News

All eyes are on Egypt as shocking images from a football match in Port Said are broadcast worldwide. Violence broke out after the final whistle of the game between local side al-Masry and Cairo's al-Ahly. A mass pitch invasion forced the players to flee, as chaotic scenes followed that left at least 73 people dead and hundreds more injured. Rumors are now circulating of political motivation for the violence, adding to tension in this politically volatile country. Report by Louise Hulland.

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Port Said

Port Said is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about 30 kilometres along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787. The city was established in 1859 during the building of the Suez Canal. Port Said has b... Explore this topic

Egypt

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Most of its territory of 1,010,000 square kilometers lies within North Africa and i... Explore this topic

Al-Masry Club

Al-Masry Sporting Club, is an Egyptian sporting club based in Port Said. It was founded in 1920 by a group of Egyptians in Port Said to be the first club for the Egyptians in the city which was full of many other clubs for the foreign communities which inhabited Port Said. Al-... Explore this topic

Al-Ahly

Al Ahly Sporting Club, commonly known as simply Al Ahly, is an Egyptian sporting club. Founded in April 1907, Al Ahly was named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the "African Club of the Century". Al Ahly is the most successful club of the 20th century in the... Explore this topic

Football in Egypt

Egypt's main sport is football. People in Egyptgather around to watch various egyptian clubs and the Egyptian national football teamplay almost on a daily bases. The most commonly known egyptian clubs are Al- Ahly and Zamalek of Cairo. For the Egyptian Premier League the main ... Explore this topic

Pitch invasion

A pitch invasion or field invasion, known as rushing the field in the United States, occurs when an individual or crowd of people who are watching a sports game run onto the playing area to celebrate or protest about an incident. Pitch invasions may involve individual people o... Explore this topic

Football

Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular fie... Explore this topic

Violence

Violence is the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against a person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. This definitio... Explore this topic

Cairo

Cairo; Arabic: القاهرة‎; is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa. Its metropolitan area is the 16th largest in the world. Located near the Nile Delta, it was founded in 969 AD. Nicknamed "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance ... Explore this topic

Football team

A football team is the collective name given to a group of players selected together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an All-star team o... Explore this topic

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