According to AFP, a football match turned tragic this Sunday in N'Zérékoré, in the south-east of Guinea. Dozens of people died in clashes between supporters, plunging the country into fear.
At least dozens of people died on Sunday in clashes between supporters during a football match in N'Zérékoré, in southeastern Guinea, medical sources told AFP. “There are around a hundred dead. Bodies are lined up as far as the eye can see in the hospital. Others are lying on the floor in the corridors. The morgue is full,” a doctor from the hospital told AFP. regional hospital on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak. “There are dozens of deaths,” according to another doctor.
In videos broadcast on social networks and whose authenticity AFP was unable to verify, we see numerous inert bodies. Other videos circulating on the networks show scenes of great confusion in the streets following the outbreak of clashes. The government remained silent on Sunday evening about the tragedy.
A challenge to an arbitration decision would have triggered chaos
“It all started with a challenge to a decision by the referee. Supporters then invaded the playing area,” a witness told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity for his safety. According to the press, it was a tournament dedicated to the head of the junta, General Mamadi Doumbouya, who came to power after a coup d'état in September 2021 and who has since become president. Such tournaments have proliferated in recent weeks in Guinea, in what is seen as support for a possible candidacy of Mr. Doumbouya in the next presidential election.
