CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — At least 37 people died in an hours-long jail riot in Venezuela’s southern state of Amazonas, officials said Wednesday. The prosecutors’ office said an investigation had been launched into “the deaths of 37 people” in the facility in the town of Puerto Ayacucho. Governor Liborio Guarulla had earlier tweeted that a “massacre” took place with at least 35 corpses counted. Prosecutors said 14 officials were wounded in the violence which […]





