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Fatal heart attack after bet loss

A SRI Lankan fruit seller suffered a massive heart attack and died after he lost a US$300 bet that India would win the cricket World T20 tournament, police said yesterday.

SP Kumara placed a 40,000-rupee (US$306) bet on Sunday’s final, wrongly predicting that Sri Lanka would repeat its “choking” performance at three previous tournaments and lose to India.

“He had gone to a bookmaker at Gampaha (town) and placed a fairly large bet on an Indian win and watched the match there,” a police official said. “When Sri Lanka won the match, he could not believe it.”

It was the second time the vendor had backed the wrong team. Police said he bet US$1,100 on Sri Lanka to clinch the last World T20 title in 2012, only to see his country lose to the West Indies.

Sri Lanka beat India by six wickets in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.




 

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