More than 70 soccer fans died and hundreds were injured, shortly after a match between Cairo 's Al Ahly and Al Masry in Port Said, Egypt on Feb. 1, 2012.
Fans of the hometown Al-Masry club stormed the field after a 3-1 win over Cairo's Al-Ahly club. Rival fans battled with rocks and chairs, and witnesses said many of the Al-Masry fans carried knives and sticks.
Egypt Soccer Riots
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Flares are thrown in the stadium during clashes that erupted after a football match between Egypt's Al-Ahly and Al-Masry teams in Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo, on Feb. 1, 2012. (AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptians football fans rush to the fiels during clashes that erupted after a football match between Egypt's Al-Ahly and Al-Masry teams in Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo, on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 40 people were killed and hundreds injured according to medical sources. (AFP / Getty Images)
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A wounded Egyptian fan of Al-Masry is escorted by a medic and a friend following clashes between rival football fans after a football match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in Port Said on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured when rival fans clashed after the football match, highlighting a security vacuum in post-revolution Egypt. (AFP / Getty Images) (credit:AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptian Al-Ahly players escape from the field as fans of Al-Masry team rush after them during riots that erupted after the football match between the two teams in Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo, on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 73 people were killed and hundreds injured in the violence that erupted as soon as the referee blew the final whistle in the match. (AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptian police clash with fans after a football match between Al-Ahly and Al-Masry teams in Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo, on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 73 people were killed and hundreds injured according to medical sources. (AFP / Getty Images)
Egypt Soccer Riots(06 of13)
Egyptian riot police stand guard in Cairo Stadium during the first half of a match between Zamalek and Ismaili clubs in Cairo on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 73 people were killed in fan violence after a football match between Al-Ahly and Al-Masry clubs in the city of Port Said, the health ministry said, as Egypt struggled with a wave of incidents linked to poor security. (Mahmud Hams, AFP / Getty Images)
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Flames rise from Cairo Stadium during the first half of a match between Zamalek and Ismaili clubs in Cairo on February 1, 2012. At least 73 people were killed in fan violence after a football match between Al-Ahly and Al-Masry clubs in the city of Port Said, the health ministry said, as Egypt struggled with a wave of incidents linked to poor security. (Mahmud Hams, AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptian riot policemen stand guard as a flare is thrown during a football match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in Port Said on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured when rival fans clashed after the football match, highlighting a security vacuum in post-revolution Egypt. (AFP / Getty Images) (credit:AFP / Getty Images)
Egypt Soccer Riots(09 of13)
Egyptian fans of Al-Masry light flares during a football match against Al-Ahly in Port Said on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured when rival fans clashed after the football match, highlighting a security vacuum in post-revolution Egypt. (AFP / Getty Images) (credit:AFP / Getty Images)
Egypt Soccer Riots(10 of13)
Egyptians gather around an ambulance outside the train station in Cairo as they greet people who were wounded in clashes after a football match in Port Said late on Feb. 1, 2012. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured when rival fans clashed after a football match in Port Said between the home team Al-Masry and Cairo's Al-Ahly, highlighting a security vacuum in post-revolution Egypt. (Amro Maraghi, AFP / Getty Images) (credit:Amro Maraghi, AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptian soldiers carry a wounded football fan of Al-Ahly upon his arrival in Cairo aboard a military plane on Feb. 2, 2012. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured when rival fans clashed after a football match in Port Said between the home team Al-Masry and Cairo's Al-Ahly on Feb. 1, highlighting a security vacuum in post-revolution Egypt. (AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptians stand around the body of a victim of football violence, at a morgue in Cairo on Feb. 2, 2012. Egypt began three days of mourning after 74 people were killed in an eruption of violence at a football match in the northern city of Port Said between home team Al-Masri and Cairo's Al-Ahly. (Mahmud Hams, AFP / Getty Images) (credit:Mahmud Hams, AFP / Getty Images)
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Egyptian women mourn at a morgue in Cairo on Feb. 2, 2012, after 74 people were killed on Feb. 1 in an eruption of violence at a football match in the northern city of Port Said between home team Al-Masri and Cairo's Al-Ahly. (Mahmud Hams, AFP / Getty Images) (credit:Mahmud Hams, AFP / Getty Images)
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