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Two professional baseball players died in a highway robbery gone wrong in Venezuela when they crashed their car while dodging a booby trap placed by bandits, according to reports.
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Carlos Rivero and Raúl Álvarez, two of their teammates on local winter league team Cardenales de Lara, were also injured in the crash but survived, the paper reported.
The thieves then stripped the athletes of their belongings — and four people were later arrested while allegedly holding the loot, officials said.
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Placing rocks in the road to force motorists to stop is a common trick used by bandits in Venezuela, according to El Nuevo Herald.
The players were en route from Caracas to Barquisimeto, where Cardenales de Lara is based.
A number of Venezuelan-born major leaguers have moved their families out of the country because of rampant crime and their big-money contracts have made them prime targets for thieves and kidnappers in the impoverished nation.
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