Five people were killed on Saturday at a football match in the Angolan capital Luanda following a stampede.
As Reuters reported, the stampede at the African Champions League contest between Angolan outfit Primeiro de Agosto and the Democratic Republic of Congo's TP Mazembe also left seven people injured.
"Angola's sports ministry said in a statement late on Sunday that it regretted the deaths and that the seven injured people had already been discharged from hospital," Reuters noted. "Witnesses said the stampede happened after fans found the gates to the Estadio 11 de Novembro stadium shut after the match.