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Villagers re-elect mayor despite his Covid-19 death

An obituary photo of former mayor Ion Aliman taped to the walls of the city hall in Deveselu, southern Romania, on Monday. [Courtesy]

A mayor in southern Romanian grabbed a landslide election victory -- despite dying of coronavirus days earlier, local reports said on Monday.

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