Fans of rival soccer teams in Colombia fought with machetes in the streets before and after a match

• Fans of rival soccer teams in Colombia fought with machetes in the streets before and after a match.
• Videos show Independiente Medellín and Atlético Nacional fans clashing on the streets.

Fans of rival Colombian soccer teams fought with machetes before and after a local derby match on Monday, videos circulating on social media show.

According to PubliMetro, violence first erupted between fans of Independiente Medellín and Atlético Nacional on the streets of Medellín before the two teams met at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot.

A video shows supporters from both teams waving machetes and throwing objects at each other from afar. Nacional fans then appeared to run at the Medellín group with their weapons, with one man brandishing a gun.

Following the match, which Medellín won 4-3, fans then clashed again directly outside the stadium and in the streets with machetes, iron bars, and other weapons.

FutbolRed reported that the violence carried on into the late hours of Monday night.

It is unclear whether anybody was hurt, or if there were any arrests. The National Police of Colombia, Independiente Medellín, and Atlético Nacional did not immediately reply to Insider's requests for comment.

Medellin's 'El Clasico Paisa' has a history of sparking fan violence

Matches between Independiente Medellín and Atlético Nacional – known as "El Clásico Paisa" – have long been plagued by violence between supporters.

According to Reuters, at a match in 2011, 68 people were arrested, three people were injured, and police confiscated explosives, knives, and drugs.

A year later, nine people were stabbed and hundreds were arrested when the sides met, according to FourFourTwo.

Medellín was the former home of Pablo Escobar's notorious drug cartel, and in 1988 it was dubbed as the most dangerous city in the world by Time Magazine due to its excessively high crime rates.

Though crime rates in the city have since fallen, it still remains among the most dangerous places in the world, according to research from the risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft.

"Medellín is a nucleus of transnational crime networks," Pedro Piedrahíta Bustamante, a professor of political science at the University of Medellín, told The Guardian.

"That's why, despite all the transformations of the last decades, negative indicators of crime persist in the city."