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MEXICO CITY — Police shoved terrified youths trying to leave the News Devine nightclub back into the face of a deadly stampede that killed a dozen people, including three officers and a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The initial investigation suggests that conditions at the club — including overcrowding — and police errors caused Friday’s tragedy, Mexico City Prosecutor Rodolfo Felix Cardenas said. The club’s narrow entrance became a death trap as patrons were crushed and asphyxiated by the crowd, according to witness accounts. The emergency exit was locked.
Felix Cardenas issued a list of about 20 errors committed by police. Seventeen police commanders have been suspended and were called in to testify in the case.
