A bus carrying Turkey's Fenerbahce football team was attacked on a highway in the country's northeast on Saturday as the players were returning from an away game, the club said, adding that the driver was injured in the shooting.

Several gunshots were fired at the bus as the Turkish league leaders were returning to Istanbul having beaten Rizespor 5-1 in the Black Sea city of Rize.

The driver was injured in the face and taken to hospital, the club's vice president Mahmut Uslu, who was on the bus at the time, said. He accused the attackers of trying to "crash the bus and kill the players".

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