Indonesian police firing tear gas was the main trigger for a deadly soccer stampede at a stadium in East Java last month, the country’s human rights commission found in a report on the incident released on Wednesday.
Officials from the human rights commission said 135 people had died, mostly from asphyxiation, in the stampede after the match at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang regency on October 1. Authorities and the Indonesian football Association have faced questions and criticism over why police fired 45 rounds of tear gas inside the stadium, a crowd control measure banned by world soccer body Fifa.
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