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By ROBERT MACKEY
Video recorded on Sunday outside a soccer stadium in Cairo, where at least 19 fans were killed in a fatal crush before a match, appears to show that the panic was triggered by the collapse of a gate and the firing of tear gas into the tightly packed crowd.
As the Interior Ministry and supporters of the Cairo club Zamalek traded blame for the deaths on Monday, the video offered evidence that flawed crowd-control measures had led to the tragic sequence of events at the Air Defense Sport Village on the outskirts of the capital.
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The relationship between the club’s administrators and the fans has been uneasy for some time, in part because the Ultras had played a prominent role in the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Despite that tension, the club had welcomed the elaborately choreographed support from the Ultras the day before the match by sharing video of the supporters cheering during a training session.
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Liam Stack contributed reporting.
