More than a thousand fans of the Italian soccer club "Juventus" suffered in a stampede while watching the final match of the Champions League in the fan zone in Turin. On the Piazza San Carlo Square, about Twenty thousand fans of Juventus gathered in Turin to watch the match. These ruptures were taken for an explosion or shots, after which a panic began in the crowd.

The final match of the tournament between Madrid "Real" and Turin "Juventus" was held on Saturday in Cardiff and ended with a score of 4: 1 in favor of the Spanish team.

Panic began after blowing the pyrotechnic rockets

The course of the meeting in Turin was observed by more than 20 thousand spectators in the fan zone.

After the third goal of "Real", a loud clap was heard in the fan zone, which caused panic among the people, flowing into a mass stampede.

According to the French news agency AFP, Ten minutes before the end of the game, someone blew up a pair of pyrotechnic rockets, after which they heard shouts that it was a bomb. It was the cause of mass panic. People, frightened of a possible terrorist attack, tried to escape from the square, trampling and pushing each other.

On the photo from the scene of the incident, dozens of pairs of shoes lost during the escape and left backpacks are seen. The audience was very frightened, many eyewitnesses have already compared the stampede in Turin with the tragedy at the Brussels stadium "Eisel" that happened on May 29, 1985, during the European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool, thirty-nine mostly Italian fans died

At the same time, metal barriers fell on the sidewalk.

These two loud sounds destabilized the public order. As one of the eyewitnesses told La Stampa, he heard screams after which thousands of people ran towards the exits. A crush began, in which some children lost their parents and relatives. The ambulance clarifies that some of the injured fans got bloody wounds, as people fell on the broken glass.

The number of victims continues to grow.

Three victims are in serious condition

As Football Italia reports, among them, there is a young woman who suffered a chest injury, and a four-year-old child who has suffered severe head and chest injuries. The portal specifies that the doctors tried to resuscitate the child right on the scene, as a result, he was taken to the intensive care unit (ICU). In turn, it is also reported that ten people are in a grave condition.