A 17-year-old Ukrainian basketball player was fatally stabbed after an altercation at a bus stop in Germany, police said on February 12, in a case that has sparked outrage in Kyiv. Volodymyr Yermakov, who played at youth level for the Ukrainian national team and German side ART Giants Duesseldorf, died in hospital following the incident in the western city of Oberhausen on February 10. Yermakov and a Ukrainian teammate had a "verbal" dispute with two other teenagers on a city center bus, local police said, adding that investigations into the background of the altercation were ongoing.
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