Turkish club bus accident, 15 injured, two seriously

The bus of the Alanya Kestelspor team had a traffic accident while arriving in Allanya after defeating the Ospor 1,0 on the trip.

The news has revealed the third Turkish league club, which announced that 15 members of the club, including players and technical staff, have been injured, while two of the players have suffered serious injuries, writes Turkish media “Hurriyet”.

The Turkish club bus had an accident near Alanya about 4:20 a.m. while returning the team home.

Chief coach, assistant coach and 13 football players were injured in this accident.

On March 11th, at 4:20 p.m., returning from the Oospor game, which we played on the trip, our minibus suffered an accident at Alanya's entrance to Ulas and, our coach, his assistant and 13 players were injured in this accident. They were transferred to the regional hospital and started their medical treatment. Fortunately, we had no victims in this accident, which has touched us all deeply. One of our players has been transferred to Antalya Medical Faculty to operate, while another has been operated at ALKU Training and Research Hospital. The treatment for our other players and for members of the technical staff is continuing”, the Turkish club has announced on the official social networking site.

The president of the club, Levent Uğur, has announced that the event occurred two or three miles from Alanya, where the bus was turned down.