Gunshots fired at Fenerbache team bus

A bus carrying Turkey’s Fenerbache team came under an armed attack while on its way to the airport following their 5-1 away win at the Black Sea side Rizespor.

The team said on their official website that the bus driver was injured in the attack and taken to hospital. The players were unhurt, the club said. The club posted several pictures of the bus on their website, showing a shattered side window and damage to the front windscreen. The poctures also showed blood on the driver’s seat and driving wheel.

Several shots were aimed at the bus as Fenerbache passed through the northeastern town of Trabzon on Saturday night following their away game in nearby Rize, said the club's vice president Mahmut Uslu

The driver managed to bring the bus to a stop despite being wounded in the face, and was immediately taken to hospital in a police car, said Uslu, who was on the bus at the time. He accused the attackers of trying to “crash the bus and kill the players.”

"It's unbelievable," he told Turkish television. “We come here to do sport, we come to play football.”

Initially there were conflicting reports over the nature of the attack, with Abdulcelil Oz, the governor of Trabzon at first saying that said the driver appeared to have been hit by a stone, while Fenerbahce TV said the bus was attacked by an assailant with a shotgun.

Oz later changed his view, saying the driver appeared to have been hit by a bullet. “The latest situation is that it appears to be a gun,” Oz said. “It is too soon to say anything definite, but it appears to be a type of bullet fired by a rifle.”

The Turkish Football Federation released a statement condemning the attack while Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,