28 March 2018 -
At least 68 people have been killed after rioting and fire broke in a Venezuelan police holding cells in Carabobo on Wednesday after the inmates attempted jailbreak.
Families of the convicts waiting outside the police station were dispersed with tear gas and State Prosecutor's Office has promised to launch deep investigations to emerge with facts what happened inside the overcrowded prison.
According to head of Una Ventana a la Libertad (A Window on Freedom) Carlos Nieto some of the prisoners were burned to death while others asphyxiated.
Nieto added the inmates had set fire to mattresses and tried to break out stealing gun of a guard.
He mentioned two women from outside too lost their lives in the incident while they were visiting the jail.
The prisons in Venezuela are overcrowded and suffers shortage of basic supplies too amid deepening economic crisis in the once-wealthy oil-producing country.
Often the convicts are sent to polic holding cells due to lack of space in penitentiaries and if take the words of Nieto these facilities too are overcrowded by five times their capacity.
In 2017 violence, tuberculosis and malnutrition led to death of 65 people in holding cells in Venezuela.
Earlier this month more than half ton detainees escaped Margarita Island's holding cells through a hole opened in wall. However, all the 58 of them were later recaptured.
In Amazonas' police cells 37 of the convicts were left dead in a riot in August 2017 while in April, the same year, two rival gangs clashed in the Puente Ayala prison in Barcelona and left 12 dead.
Author Paul Nchemba
At least 68 people have been killed after rioting and fire broke in a Venezuelan police holding cells in Carabobo on Wednesday after the inmates attempted jailbreak.
Families of the convicts waiting outside the police station were dispersed with tear gas and State Prosecutor's Office has promised to launch deep investigations to emerge with facts what happened inside the overcrowded prison.
According to head of Una Ventana a la Libertad (A Window on Freedom) Carlos Nieto some of the prisoners were burned to death while others asphyxiated.
Nieto added the inmates had set fire to mattresses and tried to break out stealing gun of a guard.
He mentioned two women from outside too lost their lives in the incident while they were visiting the jail.
The prisons in Venezuela are overcrowded and suffers shortage of basic supplies too amid deepening economic crisis in the once-wealthy oil-producing country.
Often the convicts are sent to polic holding cells due to lack of space in penitentiaries and if take the words of Nieto these facilities too are overcrowded by five times their capacity.
In 2017 violence, tuberculosis and malnutrition led to death of 65 people in holding cells in Venezuela.
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Earlier this month more than half ton detainees escaped Margarita Island's holding cells through a hole opened in wall. However, all the 58 of them were later recaptured.
In Amazonas' police cells 37 of the convicts were left dead in a riot in August 2017 while in April, the same year, two rival gangs clashed in the Puente Ayala prison in Barcelona and left 12 dead.
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Author Paul Nchemba
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