Referee, 75, dies after being speared through the throat by a javelin at athletics mee

A 75-year-old referee speared through the throat with a javelin at an athletics meeting in Germany has died from his injuries. Dieter Schmidt had gone to measure the throw of a previous athlete when the javelin from the next contestant hit him in the throat and exited out of his neck. Paramedics revived the victim at the scene and an emergency doctor escorted him as he was taken to the Dusseldorf's University Hospital, where he was operated on after losing a lot of blood from his main artery.

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