Fenerbahce team bus attacked, driver shot in face
Xinhua, April 5, 2015 Adjust font size:
A bus carrying Turkey's Fenerbahce team players returning from an away match was under gun attack on a highway on Saturday and the driver was seriously injured in the shooting.
Several gunshots were fired at the bus as the Turkish league leaders were returning to Istanbul having beaten Rizespor 5-1 in the Black Sea city of Rize, said the club's vice president Mahmut Uslu.
The driver was shot in the face and taken to hospital with serious injury in the incident, said Uslu, who was himself on the bus at the time. He accused the attackers of trying to "crash the bus and kill the players".
"We were traveling across the viaduct when the incident occurred, the driver was shot and we are lucky not to have had a serious crash that would have destroyed the bus," Uslu was quoted as saying by the Turkish Football website.
None of the players was injured in the attack. Pictures of the bus showed a windshield pocked by bullet holes.
Trabzon governor Abdil Celil Oz confirmed the gun attack on the bus and said the driver's life was not in danger.
The Turkish Football Federation issued a statement condemning the incident "in the strongest possible terms" and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice "immediately". Endi