Armed prisoners in Venezuela fire on police officers. In the uprising of 14 officers were injured, and 23 passengers died. Such clashes in Venezuela are not uncommon.

When there’s a Fight in a police 23 prisoners killed a guard in Venezuela. The non-governmental organization Venezuelan observation informed for the prisons.

14 police officers had been injured in the outbreak of violence in a police station in the town of Acarigua, in the North-West of the country, informed the organization Una Ventana a la Libertad (A window to freedom). Accordingly, the detainees had firearms and grenades and fought fierce battles with the police after they had taken visitors hostage.

are Always crowded violence in Venezuelan prisons

In Venezuela, many prisons completely. Again and again it comes to bloody clashes. In March of last year came at a riot in the prisoner’s collective in the police station in Carabobo in the centre of the South American country, 68 people have been killed.

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