There have been a number of stories surfacing around the 2014 FIFA World Cup – but they aren’t all about scores, players, and cool uniforms. A number of people have died in accidents, attacks and pre-meditated murders related to the World Cup. There’ve been about 60 deaths to date around the world.
In the latest accident, a Chinese man died on Friday, June 13. He reportedly stayed awake for multiple nights in a row to watch the games and doctors say his death was a result of sleep deprivation.
He’s not the only one. Here are more reports of recent World Cup related deaths.
An Italian man stabbed his wife and their two children to death before joining friends at a local bar to watch the England v Italy match on Saturday, June 14.
Carlo Lissi, 31, was charged with triple murder for killing his wife Cristina Omes, 38, and murdering their two young children, 5-year-old Giulia and Gabriele of 20 months. After throwing the knife down the drain he joined friends at a bar in Motta Visconti, near Milan.
Kenya is facing violent attacks by the Islamist-extremist group, the al-Shabab. The group, based in Somalia, used a World Cup viewing party as the location of one of its most recent attacks, killing at least 50 on Monday, June 16.
At least nine workers were killed in construction related projects leading up to the World Cup in Brazil. The construction workers were rushing to finish the eight arenas to be used in the tournament and other projects, such as the monorail system. In this image, the monorail collapsed and killed at one worker.