Prominent Lebanese footballer Mohamed Atwi reportedly sustained during the funeral for one of the victims of last month’s massive explosion in the port of Beirut, but died of a bullet wound, according to AlJazeera.
For a number of Lebanese clubs, the 32-year-old played as a centerman and with Beirut’s Ansar, his club for nearly 10 years, won the national league three times.
Tributes poured in for the player, who had also been capped three times for his country.
“A sad day for sport,” Wael Chehayeb, an official with his latest club Al-Akhaa al-Ahly, wrote on social media, calling Atwi “a great for Lebanese football”.
Last month, Atwi was hit by a bullet in his head as he walked down the street in Beirut.
Initial reports suggested that he had been struck by a falling bullet fired in the air from a nearby mourning procession for one of the firefighters killed in the August 4 port explosion. Since August 21, he has been in an intensive care unit.
