FIFA has criticised the organisers of last week's fatal football match in South Africa, saying they were wrong to have let the match get under way.
Forty-three people died at Johannesburg's Ellis Park when thousands of fans forced their way into the stadium despite it already being full, FIFA secretary-general Michel Zen-Ruffinen said.
"A first analysis of the Ellis Park incident indicates that several of FIFA's basic recommendations were not observed," he said.
"The match was apparently allowed to start even though the situation inside and outside the stadium was not under control.
"There was inadequate cooperation between stadium organisers and civil security forces, and the presence of metal fences inside the ground once again proved to be a death trap."
FIFA will decide at its executive committee meeting in Buenos Aires in July whether in future sanctions will be taken against organisers who fail to meet basic security needs.
AFP