The captain of the Turkish handball team, Cemal Kütahya, has died together with his five-year-old son as a result of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6, the International Handball Federation (IHF) reported on Tuesday.
“It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Cemal Kütahya, captain of our men’s national handball team, and his son Çınar Kütahya, who were buried under the rubble of the house where they lived in the city of Antioquia,” said the Federation.Turkish Handball in a statement adopted by the IHF.
Kütahya, 32, and also captain of the Turkish beach handball team, was a member of Hatay Büyükşehir Belediyespor, the current leader of the Turkish league, a club the right-back joined in the summer of 2022 following a campaign at CSU Suceava. : his second international experience after passing Al-Shamal in Qatar with which he was named champion of the Arab Champions League in 2020.
Kütahya’s wife, who is four months pregnant, as well as her mother-in-law, who lived at the same address, are still missing, the Turkish handball federation reports on its website.
Two earthquakes measuring 7.7 and 7.6 on the Richter scale hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6, killing 35,000, according to the latest data from Turkey’s Emergency Agency.
Source: El heraldo
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