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Liverpool football star Diogo Jota dies in car crash in Spain

Liverpool's striker Diogo Jota celebrates scoring a goal during a past English Premier League football match. [AFP]

Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota and his brother died in a car crash in northwestern Spain on Thursday, police said, weeks after the star got married.

The Civil Guard said a vehicle veered off a motorway and burst into flames shortly after midnight in the municipality of Cernadilla in the province of Zamora, confirming the deaths of Jota, 28, and his brother Andre.

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