Gunman fires at football team bus

Fenerbahce have called for Turkey’s football league to be suspended after their team bus was shot at by a gunman.

A coach carrying the Turkish league leaders was shot at on a highway in northern Turkey, and the driver was wounded and taken to hospital. Abdulcelil Oz, the governor of Trabzon, said the driver appeared to have been hit by a bullet.

“As Fenerbahce, we think it’s unavoidable to suspend the league until this dark attack is enlightened,” a club statement read.

“It is the end of the football and blood has been spilled. Fenerbahce’s irrevocable priority is for the culprits to be found and punished immediately.”

Fenerbahce TV maintained the coach was attacked by an assailant with a shotgun.

It said security officers on board quickly took control of the coach and safely stopped it after the driver was hit, averting an accident. None of the players was hurt.

The attack came after the team’s 5-1 weekend win over the Black Sea side Caykur Rizespor in their Turkish Super League game.

The players were travelling from the city of Rize to the airport in the neighbouring city of Trabzon, to return to Istanbul.

Oz said an investigation was launched and vowed to catch the gunman. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the attack.

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