MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Three people had been in critical condition on Sunday after violent clashes at a soccer match in the Mexican state of Queretaro left greater than two dozen people hospitalized, and officers mentioned they might prosecute some assailants for tried homicide.
“Even although there aren’t any deaths, we will not say this is not a tragedy,” Queretaro Governor Mauricio Kuri advised a information convention. “I’ve been knowledgeable that investigation information have already been opened, together with for tried murder.”
Three people out of the 26 largely male victims who had been initially hospitalized have been discharged, whereas 10 are in “delicate” well being and three others in critical condition, Kuri added.
Soccer followers on Saturday stormed the pitch throughout a high flight match between mid-table Queretaro and final 12 months’s Liga MX champions Atlas. Social media pictures confirmed people being overwhelmed, kicked and dragged in the seating space of the stadium.
Officials mentioned people who appeared in images mendacity on the bottom, some lined in blood, had been alive and being handled in hospital.
One man recognized in a photograph, in his 20s, was being handled for head trauma and light-weight hemorrhaging, mentioned Queretaro Health Minister Maria Perez.
The regional governing Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), which incorporates Mexico’s Liga MX, on Sunday referred to as on authorities to research the assaults.
“The stunning acts of vandalism and violence that occurred final night time in Queretaro, Mexico, don’t have any place in soccer or in society,” the group mentioned in a press release.
“The Confederation additionally believes that sturdy sporting sanctions needs to be utilized,” it added.
Both the Queretaro and Atlas groups condemned the violence and urged investigations. Officials didn’t handle what may need triggered the clashes.
Liga MX suspended Saturday’s match after 62 minutes with guests Atlas main 1-0, and likewise referred to as off deliberate video games for Sunday.
(Reporting by Carlos Pacheco, Daina Beth Solomon and Adriana Barrera; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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