WORLD : Lax Security Blamed for Riots
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From Times Wire Services
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Soccer officials today unofficially blamed inadequate stadium security for the violence and stampede by thousands of fans that left 42 people dead and more than 50 injured in South Africa’s worst sporting disaster.
Two people who were seriously injured died today, raising the death toll in Sunday’s tragedy to 42, the South African Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The sport’s umbrella body, the National Soccer League, opened a commission of inquiry into the disaster but refused to speculate officially on what the commission might find.
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