At least 129 people died at an Indonesian football stadium riot on Sunday in which thousands of angry home fans invaded the pitch, prompting police response that triggered a stampede, authorities said.

The stampede which also injured 180 others, happened after police fired teargas at rioting supporters after Arema FC lost to bitter rivals Persebaya Surabaya in East Java.

The country’s chief security minister said that the number of spectators exceeded the stadium’s capacity by around 4,000 people.

BBC reports that President Joko Widodo has ordered that all matches in Indonesia’s top league must be stopped until an investigation has been concluded.

Videos show an estimated 3,000 fans invading the pitch after the final whistle, and police responded by firing tear gas, leading to a crowd stampede and cases of suffocation, according to East Java police chief Nico Afinta.

“It had gotten anarchic. They started attacking officers, they damaged cars,” BBC quotes Afinta as saying, adding that two police officers were among the dead.

“We would like to convey that… not all of them were anarchic. Only about 3,000 who entered the pitch,” he said.

Fleeing fans “went out to one point at the exit. Then there was a build-up, in the process of accumulation there was shortness of breath, lack of oxygen”, he added.