MALANG - Chilean football coach Javier Roca on Sunday said 'fans died in the arms of players' and claimed tear gas-firing police fatally 'over-stepped' the mark in the Indonesian football tragedy which claimed at least 125 lives. The disaster happened when fans of...
Many of the victims were trampled or choked to death, according to police.
The 45-year-old Roca, who has spent a large part of his career in Indonesia, described how the full extent of the tragedy unfolded in the immediate aftermath of the game on Saturday night. "The boys passed by with victims in their arms. Results dictate us and determine what happens in the end. If we were drawing, it wouldn't have happened." Roca accused police of over-reacting and that the stadium was woefully under-prepared.
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