{"id":30782,"date":"2026-04-04T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30782"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:24:20","slug":"one-killed-dozens-hurt-as-peru-stadium-event-goes-awry","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/one-killed-dozens-hurt-as-peru-stadium-event-goes-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, dozens hurt as Peru stadium event goes awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person was killed and several injured on Friday ahead of a derby match at the \u200bAlejandro Villanueva Stadium in the Peruvian capital, said \u200bclub Alianza Lima, a day before it faces off \u2060against Universitario.<\/p>\n<p>The club offered condolences and solidarity for \u200bthe casualties, which media said included 60 injured during \u200ba &#8220;flag\u2011waving event&#8221; at the stadium, popularly known as Matute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fully and transparently collaborating with the competent authorities,&#8221; the club added \u200bin its statement, vowing &#8220;total transparency&#8221; in helping to \u200bclarify the facts of an incident whose cause was not immediately \u200cclear.<\/p>\n<p>Alianza \u2060Lima ruled out any structural failures at the stadium, as did a fire official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on what has been assessed, no structure has been affected,&#8221; fire official \u200bMarco Pajuelo told \u200bnews channel \u2060Canal N, saying an initial inspection showed no one had fallen into a \u200bpit. &#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been any debris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s match would \u200bproceed as \u2060planned, the Peruvian Professional Soccer League said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to work closely with the clubs and authorities to \u2060promote \u200bsafe environments both inside and \u200boutside the stadiums,&#8221; it added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21509,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-30782","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The club offered condolences and solidarity for \u200bthe casualties.","published_date":"","news_description":"The club offered condolences and solidarity for \u200bthe casualties.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30783,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30782\/revisions\/30783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}