Six killed in stadium
NZPA Mexico City Fans storming the bleachers to catch a glimpse of a bull-fighter toppled part of a stadium yesterday, killing six people and injuring more than 150, State Television reported. It said that the accident happened when spectators rushed to one side of theMilpa Alta stadium to watch the bull-fighter, Antonio
Lomelin. arrive in a helicopter outside the ring. A Red Cross spokesman said that casualty reports were not immediately available. The Government television station said that six people were killed and more than 150 injured wfien a large section of the stadium’s eight-tiered, metal bleachers collapsed. Guillermo Salas, a news-
paper reporter at the scene, said that about 1000 people were caught in the area where the bleachers collapsed. Mr Salas said that there was “a lot of confusion.” x An estimated 3000 spectators packed the stadium on the city's southern edge to see Mr Lomelin. Further details were unavailable.
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