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| June 6, 2002 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 24,1423 |
Turkish, Albanian supporters killed
ISTANBUL, June 5: A Turkish World Cup fan died on Wednesday when he fell from the top of a four-storey apartment building while attempting to adjust a television antenna.
The local Anatolian news agency reported that 34-year-old Erdogan Mutlu, who worked in a pharmacy in the eastern city of Kayseri, climbed atop the tin roof to fix the TV signal, then slipped and fell down the building’s main ventilation shaft.
The local fire service pulled Mutlu out from the shaft alive but he died on his way to hospital.
TIRANA: An Albanian fan of the Italian World Cup team was electrocuted when he tried to rig power to his house from a high-voltage cable in time to watch Italy v Ecuador in the World Cup, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
“I’ll get the power back in a moment. I am not going to miss the Italy match,” 23-year-old Alket Kocaqe told his family shortly before kickoff for Italy’s first Cup encounter
in Sapporo, Japana, on Monday which the Europeans won 2-0.
Kocaqe climbed up with a pair of pincers to re-connect the electricity supply, which had been cut off to allow repairs to the network. He was carbonised and stuck, dead, atop the pole.
The Albanian daily Gazeta Shqiptare called him the “First Martyr of the World Cup”.—Reuters
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