JAKARTA (Reuters) - A stampede at a rock concert in Indonesia's West Java province killed 10 people and injured several, police said on Sunday.
Hundreds of fans had packed a hall to watch a performance by a little known punk rock band in the city of Bandung when the stampede began on Saturday night, said Brigadier Nano Kartono, a local police officer.
Most of the dead were teenagers, he said.
Bandung city police chief Bambang Suparsono said 15 concert organizers had been questioned, the state-run news agency Antara reported.
"We received information that before the crush that ended with deaths, concert organizers distributed free drinks. There was a smell of alcohol," Antara quoted him as saying.
Indonesia has seen a number of deadly stampede at concerts in recent years.
(Reporting by Ahmad Pathoni; Editing by Bill Tarrant)
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