Bogdan Bănuță (19 August 1965 – 19 April 1992) was a

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n footballer who played as a

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. On 19 April 1992, when Inter Sibiu's team was traveling to

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for a match with Gloria, their bus overturned after hitting a bridgehead in Șeica Mare and Bănuță and his teammate Radu Gabriel Năstase were the players who lost their lives in the accident.

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