CAIRO: Egypt's Islamic Muslim Brotherhood has claimed the violence that erupted following a football match in Port Said on Wednesday evening was the doing of an “invisible” foreign hand. “This confirms that there is invisible planning that is behind this unjustified massacre. The authorities have been negligent,” the group said in a statement on its website. “We fear that some officers are punishing the people for their revolution and for depriving them of their ability to act as tyrants and restricting their privileges,” it added. At least 73 people were killed in the violence that erupted shortly after the match ended on Wednesday evening. Ahly players said that police and armed forces were nowhere to be seen during or after the clashes and rumors were that the al-Masry fans, who initiated the attack after the match, were allegedly preventing the ambulances from entering the stadium for an hour and half. Some players were also injured during the attack. Ahly TV showed split screen footage of the clashes beginning and riot police, clad with shields, standing in a tunnel immobile and not moving to intervene. A makeshift medical unit was established in the Ahly locker room, where the fans and players took shelter from the attack. The head of the Ahly club said the locker room turned into a morgue where people were dying as a result of a lack of medical assistance. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Ffy5S Tags: Ahly, featured, Muslim Brotherhood, Port Said Section: Egypt, Egyptian Sport, Latest News
