Footballer rushed to hospital after being shot as he got into firefight with bungling robbers who killed man at bar

A FORMER Colombian top-fight footballer has been rushed to hospital after being shot by bungling robbers who killed another man in an attack on a bar.

Elkin Blanco was identified in CCTV footage of the horror incident as the man who resisted the armed robbery by picking up a gun and getting into a firefight with one of the assailants as his accomplice wrestled with the victim who lost his life.

GettyElkin Blanco has been rushed to hospital after being shot in a firefight[/caption]...