Soccer fiat fuels anger in canal, Cairo
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March 10, 2013, Sunday
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EGYPTIAN protesters tried to disrupt shipping on the Suez Canal, an artery for global trade, after a court confirmed death sentences for 21 soccer fans from the canal city of Port Said yesterday.
However, canal authorities said shipping passing along the canal had been unaffected by the protests in the city, sited at the waterway's northern end, state news agency MENA reported.
In Cairo, fans of a rival soccer team set fire to a police social club and the nearby offices of the Egyptian Soccer Federation, sending smoke rising over the capital. They were enraged by the same court clearing 28 other defendants of blame over the riot, in which more than 70 people were killed at the stadium.
The stadium deaths took place last year at the end of a match between Cairo's al-Ahly team and Port Said's al-Masry. Spectators were crushed when panicked crowds tried to escape from the stadium after a pitch invasion by supporters of al-Masry. Others fell or were thrown from terraces.
Unrest has plagued Port Said since the death sentences were first handed down to the al-Masry supporters in January, with locals fighting pitched battles with police. At least eight people have been killed this week.
Witnesses said youths in Port Said untied moored speedboats used to supply shipping on the waterway.
However, canal authorities said shipping passing along the canal had been unaffected by the protests in the city, sited at the waterway's northern end, state news agency MENA reported.
In Cairo, fans of a rival soccer team set fire to a police social club and the nearby offices of the Egyptian Soccer Federation, sending smoke rising over the capital. They were enraged by the same court clearing 28 other defendants of blame over the riot, in which more than 70 people were killed at the stadium.
The stadium deaths took place last year at the end of a match between Cairo's al-Ahly team and Port Said's al-Masry. Spectators were crushed when panicked crowds tried to escape from the stadium after a pitch invasion by supporters of al-Masry. Others fell or were thrown from terraces.
Unrest has plagued Port Said since the death sentences were first handed down to the al-Masry supporters in January, with locals fighting pitched battles with police. At least eight people have been killed this week.
Witnesses said youths in Port Said untied moored speedboats used to supply shipping on the waterway.
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