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    Luke Fleurs, a 24-year-old central defender for South African side Kaizer Chiefs has shockingly been shot and killed in a car-jacking.

    Before joining the Chiefs, he had made 66 appearances and scored two goals for Supersport United. He also spent a season with Ubuntu Cape Town.

    He also had four caps for South Africa's Under-23 national team in 2021 and had been called up to the senior side that same year, but was ultimately never selected.

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    Lamin Bangura, a Sierra Leonean defender who played for his country at both the 1994 and 1996 Africa Cup of Nations has died in a bus crash aged 59.

    BBC.

    Six players from the side he was coaching (Ports Authority FC) were injured in the crash in Konta Line, as the team travelled from Freetown to Kenema for a league game.

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    Users on Twitter/X are reporting that Peter Handyside has died at the shockingly-young age of 49.

    Born in Dumfries, he played his entire senior career in England and is best known for his spells at Grimsby Town and Stoke City.

     

    He made more than 200 appearances for Grimsby between 1992 and 2001 before leaving for Stoke, making 78 appearances as they were promoted to the second tier via the playoffs in 2002.

    After leaving Stoke, he moved to Barnsley, making 28 appearances for them and 29 appearances for Northwich Victoria (2004-2006) before ending his career at Hucknall Town in 2007.

     

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    Tragic news from Germany this night, as 3rd-tier promotion hopefuls SSV Jahn Regensburg have announced the death of 25-year-old winger Agyemang Diawusie.
     


    Diawusie began his career in the RB Leipzig youth system, being loaned out to Wehen-Wiesbaden before leaving to join FC Ingolstadt.

    After another loan at Wiesbaden, he moved on to East German heavyweights Dynamo Dresden, where he played 30 times before a move to Austrian side SV Ried that didn't work out for him.

    He returned to Germany to play for Bayreuth in the German third tier earlier this year before securing the move to Regensburg, who had been relegated from the second tier last season.

     

     



     

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    Adam Johnson, a former Pittsburgh Penguins Center, has apparently died following a horrific accident in an Elite League match between the Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield Steelers.

    29-year-old Johnson, from Minnesota, suffered a cut to his throat from an opposition player's skate and required CPR at the scene, prompting the arena to be evacuated. See the tweet below.


     


    So far, the only source confirming Johnson's death is a news-aggregating group on Facebook but imagine that official confirmation will come shortly or into tomorrow morning, the radio silence since it happened seems to confirm the worst.


    EDIT: Post on Facebook from his Mother confirms the tragic news. 

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    EDIT 2: Now confirmed by the Nottingham Panthers 

     

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    Gints Freimanis, who played 13 times and scored one goal for the Latvian national team, has died of skin cancer aged 38.

     

    The full-back played for numerous clubs in his homeland, including the reputable Ventspils and also made almost 160 appearances across three spells for Jelgava.

    With Jelgava, he won the Latvian Cup four times and twice won the Baltic Cup with the Latvian national side.


    https://rus.tvnet.lv/7790085/v-vozraste-38-let-skonchalsya-byvshiy-futbolist-sbornoy-latvii

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    Spanish second-tier side Real Oviedo have announced the death of their former player Pelayo Novo at the age of 32 in a probable suicide.
     



    His playing career was ended prematurely when he fell from a hotel balcony at the age of 28.

    Although Oviedo's statement doesn't hint at cause of death, a tweet from a newspaper indicates his body was discovered on train tracks .
     

     

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    Grant Turner, a member of New Zealand's 1982 World Cup squad has died of cancer aged 64.

     

    He played for the national side for eight years, scoring 15 goals in 42 appearances for the All Whites.

    Apart from a brief spell in Australia with the South Melbourne Hellas, he played in New Zealand throughout his career, which lasted from 1976 through to 2002.

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