Eight die during or after match
NZPA-AFP Jakarta At least eight jeople died during or ? after watching a teljvised International toxing match in which Indonesia’s sole world champion, Eilyas pical, was severely beata.
The national news agency, Antara, sal! in a delayed report ths two women and three men, all aged over 80,Idled either of high bloodpressure or heart attaqs in Pical’s home provide of Ambon while wathing the tense and at jmes bloody fight. Newspapers reprted the deaths in Jakata of two hospital patient apparently also fromieart attacks, and a mall newspaper boy, hitby a car in the excitemht of the tense fourth raid. Pical was beats by the World |xing Association’s junior? bantamweight chaipion, Khaosai Galaxy, oThailand, and was? also stripped of his International Boxing {deration crown which f won last July. I
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Press, 5 March 1987, Page 34
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