Fire in Minutes
Others were either going down the front rows of the stands and climbing over the rails or scrambling towards exits, which were locked and had to be forced open. By 3:43 p.m., police radioed the fire brigade to ask for immediate help.
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The fire brigade arrived four minutes after they were called, but as police were still evacuating the stands, they couldn’t start fighting the fire right that minute. It was said that some victims died on their seat, covered in bits of tarpaulin from the roof.