Omar Darío Cañas Espinosa (16 September 1969 – 3 February 1993) was a Colombian

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who played as a

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. He competed in the men's tournament at the

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Death

Cañas, along with two others were shot and killed on 3 February 1993. He was 23 years old. The day the Colombia U-17 National Team was playing against Ecuador and “Toro” met with some friends to watch the game. They found him tied hand and foot and shot several times, along with a 17-year-old girl and a young man who was the brother of a hitman leader who had been murdered hours before.

References

1969 births 1993 deaths Colombian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Colombia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Colombia Footballers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Atlético Nacional footballers Footballers from Medellín Colombian murder victims People murdered in Colombia 20th-century Colombian sportsmen {{Colombia-footy-midfielder-stub