Hockey player fatally hit

BANGALORE, OCT. 6. A teenaged hockey player, Kuldip Horo, a sepoy of the Pioneer Corps Training Centre here, died after receiving a fatal hit from a hockey stick in a goal mouth melee during a practice match here.

Nineteen-year-old Horo, hailing from Ranchi, fell down after apparently being hit by a hockey stick in a practice match against Army Supply Corps, Jalanadhar, yesterday, the PCTC coach, Mr. Williams Kanakaraj, told PTI. Horo, who had no external injury, was rushed to Command Hospital, where he died, he said.

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