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TAPE: EF01/0395 IN_TIME: 11:22:34 DURATION: 4:15 SOURCES: GBC RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Accra, Ghana - 9/10 May 2001 SHOTLIST: 1 Various of soccer game - goal scored 2 Game continues 3 Crowds cheering 4 Various of crowds at the stadium 5 Various of game - goal being scored 6 Crowd 7 Various of crowd rioting and evacuating the stadium 8 Various of police on field 9 Supporters running from tear gas fired by police 10 Various of interior of hospital with bodies on the floor with relatives identifying bodies 11 Close up on two bodies covered with sheet 12 Pan across relatives 13 Relatives waiting for news in hospital 14 Injured man is helped to his feet 15 Sign reading 'Surgical Ward' 16 Wounded man lying in hospital bed 17 Various of the wounded 18 Exterior of hospital with policeman waving away the press 19 Pan across the dead bodies at mortuary STORYLINE: A stampede at a packed soccer match between top Ghana teams killed more than 130 people on Wednesday night The crowd stampeded when police fired tear gas after fans hurled missiles at the end of a match between local team Hearts of Oak and arch-rivals Asante Kotoko from the central town of Kumasi The hometown team was leading 2-1 against Asante Kotoko with five minutes left when Asante supporters began throwing bottles and chairs onto the field, witnesses said Police responded by firing tear gas, creating panic in the stands as spectators rushed to escape the gas Many of the dead and injured were taken to Accra's military hospital Ten of the victims who died had been brought to private clinics, while an additional 120 people were declared dead in the city's three main hospitals, medical officials said Brigadier, Daniel Twum, of the military hospital where most of the dead and injured were taken said some died of suffocation but the majority seem to have been killed by being crushed President John Kufuor summoned his cabinet for an emergency meeting later on Thursday and his aides said that a period of national mourning would be declared