Video: Egypt: violence flares over death sentences At least 22 people, including two policemen, have died in violence outside a prison in Egypt's Port Said on Saturday shortly after a court sentenced to death 21 people found guilty over a 2012 football stadium disaster that killed 74 people, security sources have reported. Officials say that the policemen were killed when relatives tried to break into the Port Said prison to free the 73 defendants in the case held there. Why were they all sentenced to death?" asked local man Mohamed Araby. But there were celebrations at the verdicts in Cairo where football fans and families cheered the court ruling. "I am happy that he sentenced these hooligans to death because they killed our children," said the mother of one of the victims of the stadium disaster.