At least 8 suffocate at soccer match (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

At least eight people suffocated at an overcrowded stadium during a soccer match between Liberia and Gambia on Sunday, a doctor and an aid worker said. The 33,000-seat Samuel K. Doe stadium in Monrovia was packed beyond capacity for the World Cup qualifying match. United Nations peacekeepers -- stationed in Liberia since the end of the country's civil war five years ago -- had closed the gates of...

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