KGZ - Basketball in mourning over Kyrgistan tragedy
GENEVA (FIBA) - The Kyrgistan Basketball Federation has released the names of the players and other members of the delegation who died in a plane crash near Bishkek on August 24. According to wire reports, 65 of the 90 passengers on board the Boeing 737 perished, including nine members of the Kyrgistan group that was travelling to Tehran for the FIBA ...
GENEVA (FIBA) - The Kyrgistan Basketball Federation has released the names of the players and other members of the delegation who died in a plane crash near Bishkek on August 24.
According to wire reports, 65 of the 90 passengers on board the Boeing 737 perished, including nine members of the Kyrgistan group that was travelling to Tehran for the FIBA Asia U18 Championship.
Eight others in the Kyrgistan group - all players - survived. All of the survivors were taken to trauma units at Bishkek hospitals.
One doctor said most had suffered "burns, broken bones and bumps".
Kyrgyzstan is a poor, mountainous country west of China and medical services struggled to cope with the tragedy.
Players Abdrahim Abdrashidov, Ivan Makarchuk, Bilgis Ibraev, Rinat Ihsanov, Emil Kozhamkulov and Elnur Beishenkulov, referee Nazar Kubatov, Kyrgistan Basketball Federation vice president Oleg Kutilov and manager Bilal Chinibaev lost their lives in the tragedy.
Essen Kasimaliev, Marat Huseinov, Murat Baibulatov, Sabirzhan Kadirov, Baish Adiev, Zhanish Adiev, Zuravai Hasembaev and Bahtiyar Kadirov all survived.
The world basketball family is mourning and its thoughts are with the families of all those affected by the tragedy.
FIBA