Dozens dead in riot, Venezuela clears out prison
Posted: January 27, 2013 at 4:34 a.m.
People react Friday to the news that their inmate relatives were killed or injured in a riot earlier in the day at the Uribana prison in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
The death toll has risen to 61 after fierce gun battles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation’s recent history.
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