JAKARTA: Thousands of football fans stormed the ground and police fired tear gas shells, triggering a stampede, killing at least 174 people and injuring more than 100. The officers provided this information.

One of the deadliest sports stadium accidents in the history of sports occurred on Saturday night in the eastern city of Malang.
Arma FC fans stormed the field at the Kanjuruhan Stadium late on Saturday after their team lost 3-2 to visiting team and fierce rival Persebaya Surabaya.

After two officers were killed, police said they tried to persuade fans to return to the stands before firing tear gas and calling the disturbance a "riot".

Police claim that many victims were either strangled or crushed to death. According to East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta, several people were crushed and suffocated when they came out.

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The death toll later rose to 174 from an initial estimate of 127.
One of the victims was a five-year-old child, a hospital director told local television.

During the stampede, photographs taken from inside the stadium showed massive tear gas shells and people breaking fences.
Amidst the commotion, people were carrying injured passersby.

Social media users posted videos of people cursing police officers who created riots. Officials claimed that the 42,000-seat stadium was sold out and 3,000 spectators stormed the ground.
We wanted to make it clear that not all of them were anarchists. According to Afinta, only about 3,000 people attended.

Roads outside the stadium were littered with charred vehicles, including police trucks, on Sunday morning. According to the police, there are a total of 13 vehicles. The Indonesian government expressed regret for the incident and resolved to investigate the cause of the stampede.

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According to Indonesia's Minister of Sports and Youth Zainuddin Amli, "It is a regrettable incident that our football has been 'injured' at a time when supporters can watch football matches from the stadium."
"We will carefully assess how the match went and how many fans showed up. Will we stop fans from attending games? What will we talk about.

In Indonesia, where intense rivalry has led to deadly confrontations in the past, fan violence is a constant issue.
Longtime rivals Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya.

Due to concerns about violence, Persebe Surabaya supporters were not allowed to purchase tickets to the game.
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud Md claimed that the organizers disregarded the advice of the authorities to hold the games in the afternoon instead of the evening.

Additionally, he claimed that although the government had advised printing only 38,000 tickets, 42,000 people came and the event was sold out.

He wrote on Instagram, "The government has made changes to the way football matches are implemented... and will do more. But the sport, popular with the general public, often finds fans expressing their feelings in unexpected ways " inspires."

The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) has postponed the BRI Liga 1 football season by a week.
Additionally, he announced that he would send an investigation team to Malang to determine the cause of the crush and banned Arema FC from hosting home matches for the rest of the campaign.

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PSSI president Mochmad Iriyawan said, "We are sorry and apologize to the families of the victims and all those involved in the incident.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup will take place in Indonesia in May in six stadiums spread across the country. The Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang is not on that list.

Other tragic stadium incidents include the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium crush in Britain, where 97 Liverpool fans died, and the 2012 Port Said Stadium tragedy in Egypt, where 74 people lost their lives in the conflict.

In an Olympic qualifying match between Peru and Argentina at the National Stadium in Lima in 1964, a stampede killed 320 people and injured more than 1,000.