{"id":40887,"date":"2026-04-04T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40887"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:50:00","slug":"peru-soccer-stadium-incident-kills-one-injures-dozen-at-alejandro-villanueva-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40887","title":{"rendered":"Peru soccer stadium incident kills one injures dozen at Alejandro Villanueva Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At least one person was killed and several injured on Friday ahead of a soccer derby match at the Alejandro Villanueva Stadium in the\u00a0Peruvian capital, said club Alianza Lima, a day before it faces off against Universitario.<\/p>\n<p>The club offered condolences and solidarity for the casualties, which media said included 60 injured during a \u201cflag\u2011waving event\u201d at the stadium, popularly known as Matute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully and transparently collaborating with the competent authorities,\u201d the club added in its statement, vowing \u201ctotal transparency\u201d in helping to clarify the facts of an incident whose cause was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>An ambulance sits in front of the Alejandro Villanueva Stadium after an incident killed one, and injured multiple on April 3, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The club offered condolences and solidarity for the casualties, which media said included 60 injured during a \u201cflag\u2011waving event\u201d at the stadium, popularly known as Matute. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Alianza Lima ruled out any structural failures at the stadium, as did a fire official. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Alianza Lima ruled out any structural failures at the stadium, as did a fire official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on what has been assessed, no structure has been affected,\u201d fire official Marco Pajuelo told news channel Canal N, saying an initial inspection showed no one had fallen into a pit. \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s match would proceed as planned, the\u00a0Peruvian Professional Soccer League said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to work closely with the clubs and authorities to promote safe environments both inside and outside the stadiums,\u201d it added in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/sports\/peru-soccer-stadium-incident-kills-one-injures-dozen-at-alejandro-villanueva-stadium\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person was killed and several injured on Friday ahead of a soccer derby match at the Alejandro Villanueva Stadium in the\u00a0Peruvian capital, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}