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SOCCER-One dead and 50 hurt in Venezuela ticket crush

Fri May 30, 2008 2:24pm EDT
CARACAS, May 30 (Reuters) - One person was killed and 50 others injured on Friday in a crush to buy tickets for a league final at a soccer stadium in western Venezuela, a rescue official said.

Victims were trampled underfoot when fans in the state of Tachira pushed over a security fence, trapping a group beneath the railings, emergency worker Esteban Fajardo said.

"Those at the front were the ones who suffered most," he said. "The fence fell, knocking down several people and the others walked over them."

The accident happened in Pueblo Nuevo de San Cristobal, about 480 miles (770 km) from the capital, where teams from Caracas and Tachira are due to play the second leg of the final on Saturday. (Reporting by Deisy Buitrago; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel)


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