(CNN) — A stampede that killed at least seven soccer fans in the Kenyan capital started after a group without tickets tried to storm through a stadium entrance, a game official said Sunday.
Seven football fans were killed after a frenzied crowd stampeded Kenya’s Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi to watch a match between two of the country’s most popular teams, the Red Cross said Saturday.
Seven Kenyan football fans were killed on Saturday when crowds jostled to enter a stadium in the capital Nairobi where rival teams clashed in a premier league fixture, police and Red Cross officials said.
Seven people have been killed in a stampede at a football stadium in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, officials say.
The crush happened as a crowd tried to enter Nyayo National Stadium to watch a match between two of Kenya’s most popular teams.
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