Turkish footballer hailed as hero after saving stunned seagull

Gani Catan, a 32-year-old accountant and captain of amateur club Yurdum Spor, raced across the pitch Sunday after a ball knocked the low-flying bird to the ground. "I acted on instinct, or maybe I once saw someone do this on a dog or a cat," he told AFP a few days later as he watched the club's youth teams train. As it hit the pitch, Catan leapt into action and started performing rudimentary CPR, pumping the bird's ribcage. "When I started the chest compressions, it began moving its legs. The more it moved, the more I kept going," he said.