Belarusian singer Yakau Navumenka passed away in Sevastopol

• 27.08.2012, 12:32

People's Artist of Belarus spent several days in coma in hospital in Ukraine.

The singer Yakau Navumenka with his son Tihon had visited a festival in Sevastopol about a week ago. Disguised strangers attacked him there. He received a skull fracture and his son's jaw was broken.

He spent all this time in hospital - he was in coma and was staying on a ventilator.

Yakau Navumenka is a Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus, the soloist of the State Orchestra of Symphonic and Popular Music of the Republic of Belarus, artistic director of the creative association «Belconcert».