JAKARTA At least 17 people were killed and 39 injured in a stampede triggered by fighting among fans after a boxing match on Sunday in the remote Indonesian province of Papua. 
 
 The fighting was sparked by a dispute over scoring for the match, prompting some 1,500 spectators to try to flee the stadium in Nabire city in the country's resource-rich, eastern-most province, said deputy national police spokesman Agus Rianto. 
 
 Media reports said the stadium had only two working exits. 
 
 "There were military and police personnel present in the stadium, but with so many people panicking ... the situation quickly got out of control," Rianto told Reuters. 
 
 Most of the dead were women. Among the injured were 17 men, 13 women and nine children. 
 
 (Reporting by Kanupriya Kapoor; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and Robert Birsel) 

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 At least 17 people have been killed in a stampede at a boxing match in Indonesia, police say. 
 
 The match took place on Sunday night in Nabire town in the eastern province of Papua. 
 
 The stampede occurred as supporters of the loser started rioting, Papua police spokesman Gede Sumerta Jaya told the BBC. 
 
 They started throwing chairs at the winner's supporters, causing people to panic and flee the stadium. 
 
 Most of those killed were women, reports said, and many others were hurt in the stampede. 
 
 Media reports say there were more than 1,000 people in the arena even though its official capacity was only around 800 people, the BBC's Karishma Vaswani reports from Jakarta. 
 
 Thirteen people are being questioned for their part in organising the event, but so far no one has been named a suspect, our correspondent adds. 
 
 Only two of the five stadium gates were functional during the match, reports say. 
 
 Riots like these are quite rare in boxing matches in Papua, police say. 
 
 In 2011, two football fans were killed during a stampede at a match in Jakarta between Indonesia and Malaysia. 
 
 In 2008, at least 21 people were also killed while waiting for charity handouts from a wealthy family at a town in East Java.
– When fans disagreed over scoring at an Indonesian boxing match yesterday, a fight broke out—followed by a stampede to exit the stadium that left at least 17 dead and 39 injured, Reuters reports. Most of the dead were women. Some 1,500 attended the match in Papua province, though the stadium capacity was only 800, the BBC reports, and the venue had just two working exits. "There were military and police personnel present in the stadium, but with so many people panicking ... the situation quickly got out of control," says a police official. Backers of the match's loser threw chairs at fans of the winner. So far, there are no suspects in the incident, but 13 people are being questioned.