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1998: Every player on the visiting soccer team at a game in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was struck by a fork bolt of lightning, killing them all instantly.

There is a plethora of strange deaths on this list that satisfies my morbid curiosity, but this incident has to be the strangest one of them all. Every player? By forked lightning? That is a new and terrifying level of bad karma.

EDIT: the list of references for this article borders on obscenely extensive. I mean, genuinely offensive.