Murder of Otávio Jordão da Silva is drawing 42x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

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Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede was a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee who was stoned, lynched, beheaded, quartered, and had his head impaled upon a stake in the field by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013.

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