Story highlights Argentine referee shot three times after sending player off

Shooter has not yet been apprehended

Another player wounded during on-field shooting

(CNN) A referee in Argentina was shot and killed by a player who he had just dismissed, according to local reports.

Cesar Flores was officiating an amateur match in Cordoba, around 700 kilometers northwest of Buenos Aires, when he showed an unnamed player a red card. The incensed player took a gun from his bag and returned to the pitch, shooting the 48-year-old referee three times, in the neck, head and chest.

"It all happened during the match," a police source told the EFE news agency. "We don't know what happened with the referee, but the player was angry and went to get his gun and killed him."

The suspect is still at large.

Another player was also "seriously injured" in the shooting but it is understood his wounds are not life-threatening.

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