VENEZUELA– Thirty-seven inmates were killed in Venezuela’s southern jungle state of Amazonas during an overnight government security prison on Wednesday (US time).
According to the Amazonas governor Liborio Guarulla, there was a massacre and the morgue is totally overwhelmed about it.
Gunshots were heard all night, Jose Mejias stated, a city council member.
“The government went in to try to regain control of the jail. The prisoners resisted,” Mejias added,
Human rights advocates have complained that gangs have ready access to automatic weapons and even hand grenades over country’s prisons.
The government sent special forces from time to time in understaffed prisons, however, deadly confrontations happened. | Angelica Bobiles – PTV