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> 100 Dead in Ghana Soccer Stampede
> by KWASI KPODO
> Associated Press Writer
>
> ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- Tear gas and panic touched off Africa's fourth soccer
> stampede in a month, when at least 100 people died during a match between
> top teams in Ghana, officials and witnesses said.
>
> Wednesday's stampede was also the latest challenge to the fledgling
> government of President John Kufuor.
>
> ''It is a great national tragedy,'' Minister of Presidential Affairs Jake
> Obetsebi-Amptey as he visited the hospital where most victims were taken.
> ''Many people have died and many more are wounded and are bleeding.''
>
> He said at least 100 people were killed. Hospital officials also gave that
> figure, but some local media reported that more than 120 fans were killed in
> the melee.
>
> Hometown team Accra Hearts of Oak was leading 2-1 against Asante Kotoko with
> five minutes left when Asante supporters began throwing bottles and chairs
> onto the field Wednesday, witnesses said.
>
> Police responded by firing tear gas, creating panic in the stands as
> spectators rushed to escape the gas, they said.
>
> Ambulances raced through the streets of this seaside capital more than an
> hour after the stampede at Accra Stadium, the city's main playing field.
> Radio stations were broadcasting appeals for all doctors to help treat the
> injured.
>
> The hallways of Ghana's military hospital No. 37, where many of the
> casualties had were taken, were crowded with bleeding, injured people, as
> relatives frantically searched for loved ones.
>
> Obetsebi-Amptey urged relatives to return home, saying they were crowding
> the hospital and creating problems.
>
> ''What is important now is to remain calm,'' he said. ''It is a night for us
> to mourn and not a night to worsen an already bad situation with anger and
> impatience.''
>
> At the Ridge Hospital, bodies in dusty, ripped clothing were covered in
> sheets and laid out on the floor early Thursday. Many wore jeans and bare
> feet. A wounded woman was helped into the hospital, with one man supporting
> her under the arms and another carrying her intravenous tubes.
>
> This is the latest in a string of recent soccer disasters.
>
> Officials in northeastern Iran said overcrowding was the main reason the
> roof of a stadium collapsed on Sunday, killing two people and triggering
> riots with police. At least 20,000 people were packed into Mottaqi stadium
> in the town of Sari -- twice its capacity.
>
> Since early April, 51 people were killed in other soccer stadium clashes in
> Africa. Forty-three of them died April 11 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
> Another stampede April 29 killed seven people in Lubumbashi, Congo. And on
> May 6, fighting broke out among fans at a soccer match in Ivory Coast,
> killing one person and injuring 39.
>
> Kufuor, who took office in January pledging to rebuild this West African
> nation's ailing economy, is dealing with a scandal that broke last week,
> further taxing the poor country's resources.
>
> Ghana's Justice Minister Addo-Dankwa Akuffo-Addo announced that five former
> top officials were charged in connection with a failed project to grow rice
> for Ghana's hungry that left the government holding $20 million in debts.
>
>  AP-NY-05-10-01 0617EDT<
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