AT least 40 Egyptians have been killed in violence following a soccer match in Port Said, when fans flooded the field seconds after a match was over, Egypt's health ministry says.
It is one of the worst incidents of sports violence in Egypt in decades.
A security official and a medic said fans of the home team, Al-Masry, swarmed the field overnight after a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, Egypt's top team. They threw stones, fireworks and bottles at the fans and injured some players.
A medic at a morgue in Port Said, a city on the Mediterranean coast, said some of the dead were security officers.
The causes of the deaths were not immediately known.
The ministry's statement of 40 dead was carried on state TV.
The players were later taken to the locker room for protection, Sayed Hamdi, a player told state TV.
Soon after the violence, a soccer game in the Cairo Stadium between the Al-Ismailiya and Zamalek teams was called off in mourning for the violence in Port Said.
State TV showed video of sections of the Cairo stadium on fire. The announcer said angry fans of the Zamalek protested the cancellation and set some sections of the stadium on fire.
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