Riot erupts after Sarawak-Perak football match in Kuching


By YU JI
Starpix by ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE

KUCHING: It was complete pandemonium at the State Stadium here on Saturday midnight when hundreds of rioters torched and overturned police cars after a football match between Sarawak and Perak.

Not since the late 1980s has there been riots of a similar scale after a football match in Sarawak.

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