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#BREAKING At least 127 dead after violence at football match in Indonesia: police

#URGENT The deaths occurred when angry fans invaded a football pitch after a match in East Java late Saturday, police said.
Two of the dead were police. "Thirty-four people died inside the stadium and the rest died in hospital," East Java police chief Nico Afinta said Sunday.

Images captured from inside the stadium showed huge amounts of tear gas and people clambering over fences. Torched vehicles, including a police truck, littered the streets outside the stadium on Sunday morning.

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#UPDATE Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered a safety review of the country's football matches in the wake the stampede triggered by clashes between fans and police.

#BREAKING Indonesia football stadium riot death toll jumps to 174: official

#UPDATE "At 10:30 am the figure rose to 174 deaths. That's the data collected by the East Java disaster mitigation agency," East Java deputy governor Emil Dardak told broadcaster Kompas TV.

The tragedy on Saturday night is one of the world's deadliest sporting stadium disasters

"Officers fired tear gas, and automatically people were rushing to come out, pushing each other and it caused many victims," said a spectator Doni, who declined to give his full name.

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#BREAKING Indonesia stadium stampede death toll revised down to 125: official

#UPDATE The death toll from an Indonesian football riot that turned into a stampede was revised down to 125 on Sunday due to double counting, an official told local media.