Caracas, August 17<\/p>\n
At least 37 people died in an hours-long jail riot in Venezuela\u2019s southern state of Amazonas, officials have said.<\/p>\n
The prosecutors\u2019 office said an investigation had been launched into \u201cthe deaths of 37 people\u201d in the facility in the town of Puerto Ayacucho.<\/p>\n
Governor Liborio Guarulla had earlier tweeted that a \u201cmassacre\u201d took place with at least 35 corpses counted.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said 14 officials were wounded in the violence which ran from Tuesday into early yesterday, but did not say if any were among the dead.<\/p>\n
Two prison-monitoring groups, A Window to Freedom and the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory, said the 37 killed were all inmates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the worst riot we\u2019ve had in a preventative detention facility,\u201d Carlos Nieto of A Window to Freedom told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this one, detainees are only supposed to be held for up to 48 hours, but there were prisoners who have been there for years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The jail was holding 105 prisoners at the time of the riot, Guarulla said.<\/p>\n
The deadliest riot in a prison in Venezuela was in 2013, when 60 people died and more than 150 were wounded in a facility in Uribana, in the western state of Lara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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