Alexander Galimov survivor of the last week plan crash in Russia died
MOSCOW: On Monday one of the only two survivors of last week’s plane crash that fineshed almost the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice-hockey team died in hospital, said officials.
Yaroslavl native Alexander Galimov began his career in 2004 and was a member of the silver-medal winning Russian U20 team at the 2005 World Junior Ice-Hockey Championships. He also played for the senior national team. He was 26.
Hospital statement said, “Alexander Galimov died from severe burns in the burn center of the Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery.”
“We did everythng possible to save him,” burn specialist Andrei Alekseev said.
Some 300 kilometers from MoscoW, forty-five people died on Wednesday afternoon when a plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice-hockey team crashed during take-off near Yaroslavl.
The Russian Ice-Hockey Federation said, “We express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of Alexander, and all to whom his fight for life has remained the last hope in this terrible tragedy,”.
Galimov, who had suffered burns to 90% of his body, was sent to Moscow Institute of Surgery on Thursday together with another survivor, crew member Alexander Sizov.
The brave Galimov walked away from the wreckage of the plane said the police eyewitnesses.
(News Editor- Naushin Fatima Khan)
