(AP)
CAIRO - At least 73 Egyptians were ****** Wednesday in ******** following a soccer match in Port Said, when fans flooded the field seconds after a match against a rival team was over, Egyptian state TV reported.
It was one of the worst incidents of sports ******** in Egypt in decades.
Egyptian Al-Ahly players escape from the field as fans of Al-Masry team rush to the pit during clashes that erupted after a football match between the two teams in Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo, on February 1, 2012.
A security official and a medic said fans of the home team, Al-Masry, swarmed the field after a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, Egypt's top team. They threw stones, fireworks, and bottles at the fans and injured some players. (Watch the incident below).
A medic at a morgue in Port Said, a city on the Mediterranean coast, said some of the dead were security officers. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
The causes of the deaths were not immediately known.
