Indonesia Probes Elite Officers as Stadium Disaster Death Toll Rises

The Olympic Council of Asia held a minute's silence at its executive board meeting in Cambodia on Tuesday.

Football fan violence is an enduring problem in Indonesia, and Persebaya Surabaya supporters had been barred from the game because of it.

But fans said they were not to blame.

Everything that could go wrong at a football match appeared to do so on Saturday night, culminating in a disaster never seen before in an Indonesian stadium.

"You could see and sense that something bad could potentially happen. That's the kind of fear you usually get when you travel to a game here," Indonesian football pundit Pangeran Siahaan told AFP.

"There's a lot of danger every time you go into a football stadium in Indonesia."

Source: Agence France-Presse