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Fact #26649

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Reggae pioneer Winston Riley dies at University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica, Caribbean, aged 65, from gunshot wounds he had received in November 2011. Riley, a noted producer and also founder of The Techniques, had been the target of a number of unexplained attacks in 2011, including being shot in August and stabbed in September.