At least 12 people have died with more than 100 injured in a crowd crush at a football stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American country’s government has confirmed.
Alianza FC and Club Deportivo Fas were playing the second leg of their playoff quarter-final game at the Cuscatlán stadium in San Salvador, the country’s capital, when play was suspended after 16 minutes.
“The Salvadoran Football Federation deeply regrets the events that occurred at the Cuscatlán Stadium,” the country’s football governing body wrote on Twitter. “It also expresses solidarity with the…
