At least 11 dead in 'heartrending' cricket tragedy

At slightest 11 group are dormant and much than 30 injured aft a stampede arsenic crowds tried to participate a cricket crushed successful confederate India's Karnataka state, authorities say.

The crush happened arsenic tens of thousands of cricket fans gathered extracurricular nan M Chinnaswamy Stadium successful Bengaluru metropolis connected Wednesday to observe nan winners of nan Indian Premier League, nan world's astir celebrated T20 cricket tournament.

Karnataka state's Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who only uses 1 name, said nan crowd tried to break 1 of nan stadium's gates and participate to return portion successful celebrations.

Eleven group were killed and 33 others were injured, Siddaramaiah said, adding that astir of nan injured were unchangeable and receiving curen successful hospitals.

"At a clip of celebration, this unfortunate arena should not person happened. We are saddened by this," he told reporters.

"No 1 expected this crowd," he said.

Cricket fans had travel retired to observe Royal Challengers Bengaluru's first Indian Premier League title triumph connected Tuesday.

The squad had fixed distant free passes to fans for nan arena done its website and urged them to travel guidelines group by constabulary and authorities.

Local TV news channels showed immoderate group stretched retired connected nan crushed and emergency unit carrying group into ambulances, while celebrations wrong nan stadium continued.

DK Shivakumar, nan lawman main curate of Karnataka state, told reporters that "the crowd was very uncontrollable".

The Board of Control for Cricket successful India, which organises nan IPL, successful a connection called nan incident "unfortunate".

"This is simply a antagonistic broadside of popularity. People are crazy for their cricketers. The organisers should person planned it better," BCCI caput Devajit Saikia said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called nan incident "heartrending" and said his "thoughts are pinch each those who person mislaid their loved ones".

Stampedes are comparatively communal successful India erstwhile ample crowds gather.

In January, astatine slightest 30 group were killed arsenic tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to bathe successful a ineffable stream during nan Maha Kumbh festival, nan world's largest belief gathering.

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