Ghanian football player still missing, club's director says

Christian Atsu, a Ghanian national who plays for the Turkish football club Hatayspor, remains missing following the earthquakes that struck Turkey, according to the club's director Volkan Demirel.

On Tuesday, Hatayspor vice president Mustafa Ozat and Ghana's football association had mistakenly said that Atsu had been rescued from the rubble and transported to hospital.

"There is no information on his whereabouts yet; we don't know where he is," Demirel told Reuters. "It's not the case that he was pulled out or taken anywhere else."

The search for Atsu is ongoing, Demirel added. Atsu's agent, Nana Sechere, confirmed on social media that his client cannot be located.

Atsu, 31, had joined Hatayspor last year after spending nearly a decade in England at clubs Chelsea and Newcastle United.