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Box: Perugino commits suicide
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia) ...Australia) 01-23-2001 Box: Perugino commits suicide Italian superfeatherweight boxing champion PRISCO PERUGINO has committed suicide, accordingto...reports. The 28-year-old PERUGINO was found on a railway ...

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