Britain Football Soccer - Liverpool - Official opening of redeveloped main stand at Anfield - Anfield - 9/9/16 A general view of the newly built Hillsborough Memorial at Liverpool football club's Anfield Stadium Reuters / Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - British prosecutors are to consider whether criminal charges should be brought against 23 suspects over the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster in which 96 fans died, the police watchdog said on Thursday.
The Liverpool supporters died in a crush in an overcrowded, fenced-in enclosure at the Hillsborough ground in Sheffield, northern England, at an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. It remains Britain's worst sporting disaster.
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