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Dec 29 • 07:00 UTC • 🇬🇧 UK • Mirror

Referee stoned, decapitated and dismembered during football match

A friendly football match turned deadly when a 19-year-old referee was brutally attacked and killed by a group of individuals following a conflict over a yellow card.

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