Ukrainian player dies from carbon monoxide poisoning

KIEV, Mar 27 (Reuters) Yvegeny Sukhina, a goalkeeper with Ukrainian club Simferopol Krymteplitsy, has been found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, Ukrainian media reported today.

Police found Sukhina's body and that of his girlfriend in their apartment in Simferopol, the main town in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, the ua-football website said.

The 23-year-old keeper, viewed as a good future prospect, was on loan from Dynamo Kiev to Krymteplitsky in the Ukrainian second division.

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