{"id":49017,"date":"2022-10-03T02:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/02\/i-felt-terrified-fans-tell-how-indonesia-stadium-disaster-unfolded-arema-persebaya"},"modified":"2022-10-03T02:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T17:10:59","slug":"i-felt-terrified-fans-tell-how-indonesian-stadium-disaster-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49017","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt terrified\u2019: fans tell how Indonesian stadium disaster unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses describe how police use of teargas led to brutal crushes that killed 125 football fans in East Java<\/p>\n<p>Just after the match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya had finished at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on Saturday night, a group of three Arema fans climbed down from the stands, attempting to meet their team\u2019s players on the pitch, recalled a spectator who was watching from the southern stand.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a disappointing game for the home side: they\u2019d lost 3-2 to Persebaya Surabaya \u2013 a team they shared such fierce rivalry with that its supporters are banned from Arema\u2019s ground. This was their first loss against Persebaya after 23 years of undefeated home matches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/02\/i-felt-terrified-fans-tell-how-indonesia-stadium-disaster-unfolded-arema-persebaya\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses describe how police use of teargas led to brutal crushes that killed 125 football fans in East JavaJust after the match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya had finished at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on Saturday ni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,627,156,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-football","category-indonesia","category-sport","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49017\/revisions\/49018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}