{"id":585102,"date":"2026-04-04T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:59:10","slug":"one-dead-47-injured-after-incident-at-peru-football-derby-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585102\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, 47 injured after &#8216;incident&#8217; at Peru football derby: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA &#8211; At least one person died and 47 more were injured Friday night in an unspecified &#8220;incident&#8221; at Alejandro Villanueva Stadium in Peru&#8217;s capital during a rally ahead of a football derby, according to the health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been an unfortunate incident at the stadium in which 47 people have been injured&#8230;and sadly there is one fatality,&#8221; Health Minister Juan Carlos Velasco told media, without providing details on the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was initially attributed to the collapse of a part of a stadium wall, but the Alianza Lima football team later said in a post on X that the accident was not caused by &#8220;the fall of walls or structural failures of the sports complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Velasco said 39 of the victims were sent to hospitals throughout the Lima region, including three in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief Marcos Pajuelo told reporters that &#8220;the structure of the southern stands appeared to be in good condition. There are no collapsed walls or sections fallen into the pit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Alianza Peru match against Club Universitario de Deportes is currently set to proceed as planned on Saturday night, the Peruvian football league said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIMA &#8211; At least one person died and 47 more were injured Friday night in an unspecified &#8220;incident&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,115924,115925,115928,115927,115926,596,1347,44,3357,115931,115930,115929,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-585102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ewn","11":"tag-ewn-news","12":"tag-ewn-south-africa","13":"tag-eye-witness-news","14":"tag-eyewitness-news","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-prime-media-plus","20":"tag-primedia-plus","21":"tag-primedia","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}