Handball: Raman Lukashuk died after night club injuries

23-year-old player of SKA and the national team Raman Lukashuk has died. He was taken to the intensive care on September 7. He had received a spine injury on leaving a night club. Doctors tried to save his life but he died on September 14 at 3.20 p.m.

It was not a civilian trauma, Euroradio fund out. There was a  fight near the club, the young man’s friends say.

“He was injured when he was leaving a night club. He did not (fall down – Euroradio) on his own. He did not participate in the fight, he just happened to be in the way.”

Raman went to the club with other SKA players. Raman felt bad on the way home and the players called an ambulance, Euroradio’s source reports.

The sportsman quarreled with a stranger on leaving the night club, the police say. The man hit Raman Lukashuk and he fell down and got injured.

A SKA player who was with Raman in the club says that he left earlier and did not see the fight. Raman’s friends do not want to name the club.

The Investigation Committee is working on the case. The other participant of the conflict is an inhabitant of Minsk Province born in 1988. He is accused of deliberate bodily harm.

Raman Lukashuk made a great contribution to winning the Challenge Cup by SKA – the first European trophy over a long time. Chief manager of the national team Yury Shautsou noticed the player last year and invited him to train with the team. Lukashuk could become a great player, specialists thought.

"I do not even want to talk about it now. Raman was expecting so much but did not get anything because of a fatal event. He came as a beginner and left as a member of the national team. We can only regret it now,” chief manager of SKA Spartak Miranovich said.

The handball match between Belarus national team and Meshkov BGK appointed for September 16 has been cancelled because of Raman Lukashuk’s death.

Photo: D.Barsukov