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SC Villa captain and Ugandan international David Owori was found unconscious by passers-by, but later pronounced dead. Uganda international David Owori, captain of one of the country’s biggest football clubs, has died after an assault in the capital Kampala, police said. The 28-year-old, who was captain of Uganda’s record-breaking champions SC Villa, was critically injured by unidentified assailants in a suburb of Kampala on Tuesday, police spokesperson Racheal Kawala said. His death comes only weeks after the killing of Rugby international Sydney Gongodyo in the Ugandan capital. Owori was found unconscious by passers-by, who took him to a nearby hospital.
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