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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Chaos as India-England tickets go on sale

An Indian law enforcemetn officer uses a bamboo hang in an try to carry out cricket fans jostling to say their upon all sides after a teenager bolt in a reserve for tickets during The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, upon Feb 24, forward of a Cricket World Cup compare in between India as well as England. India fool around England upon Feb 27.
©AFP – Indranil Mukherjee

BANGALORE, India (AFP) – Indian military baton-charged thousands of World Cup cricket fans queuing for tickets for India’s week end strife with England among scenes of disharmony outward Bangalore stadium.

Several people upon Thursday were harmed as well as taken divided upon stretchers as military attempted to keep sequence as an estimated 5,000 people pushed as well as shoved in an uncontrolled line which spread out around a M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, an AFP contributor witnessed.

Sunday’s diversion was switched during a last-minute to Bangalore since of problems during a Eden Gardens track in Kolkata where a match, a single of a highlights of a early stages of a World Cup, had been due to be played.

A sum of 7,000 tickets were upon sale during a track upon Thursday as well as sole out in multiform hours, a cabinet member during a state cricket association, Javagal Srinath, told AFP.

People had started queuing upon Wednesday night as well as a throng grew bigger upon Thursday morning, heading to a outrageous vanquish when a half dozen counters non-stop upon Thursday morning.

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