Police Shut Stadium After Fans of the Guadalajara Chivas Riot Al Jazeera
go to original March 24, 2014

Fans of the Guadalajara Chivas fought a running battle with outnumbered police on the upper terraces. (AFP)

Guadalajara city authorities closed the Jalisco stadium after fans clashed with police, leaving close to 40 people injured and 17 arrested after the local derby.

Fans of the Guadalajara Chivas, who had earlier lit dozens of flares, fought a running battle with outnumbered police on the upper terraces of the stadium near the end of Saturday's 1-1 draw with bitter city rivals Atlas.

Television footage showed police helmets and truncheons flying through the air and officers pushed down the terraces by fans wearing red and white striped Guadalajara shirts.

"After revising the evidence we're going to close the building," Jesus Lomeli, general secretary of Guadalajara town hall, told reporters.

"Eight policemen are injured, two of them seriously though out of danger. There are 30 civilians hurt, one of them gravely but out of danger".

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