29 Inmates Killed in Gangs’ Turf War
From Times Wire Reports
A bloody battle for power between rival gangs claimed the lives of 29 inmates at a remote Venezuelan maximum security jail, authorities said. Thirteen inmates were injured in the violence at El Dorado jail, 440 miles southeast of Caracas, the capital. The attackers hacked and stabbed to death the victims, decapitating several of them. The attack started shortly after dawn, when one group of inmates broke the locks on their cells and launched the raid on a rival gang of prisoners transferred from another jail.
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