SOCCER PLAYER ELECTROCUTED
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LISBON.
A leading Portuguese soccer player was electrocuted and six others suffered electric shocks while swimming in their club’s baths at Lisbon on Monday.
The player killed was Luciano Jorge Fernandes, aged 26, of the Benfica club. One of those who suffered shock was the brilliant World Cup player, Eusebio. A Benfica spokesman said that Eusebio, top scorer in the World Cup in England last July, and the other five plavers were out of danger. One of the survivors, the right-back. D om i n i c a n o
Caven, said later: “We were in the bath when suddenly we felt a paralysing electric shock which appeared to come from an underwater massage apparatus. “Luciano was nearest to the apparatus and was killed immediately. Two other players fainted,” he said. Cavern said that he and the other three, still conscious, stood still, heid by the shock, until the World Cup player. Jaime Graca. managed to jump clear and pull the plug out.
“It lasted about four minutes. Another two or three and we would all have been killed.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31236, 7 December 1966, Page 23
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