Sixteen killed in Venezuela Sabaneta prison violence
Sixteen killed in Venezuela Sabaneta prison violence
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At least 16 prisoners have been killed in violence inside a jail in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo.
Fifteen inmates died in fights between rival gangs, Prisons Minister Iris Varela said. The other victim was killed in a separate incident.
Some of the inmates were beheaded and others dismembered, pressure group Venezuelan Prison Observatory told AFP news agency.
Prisons in the country are heavily overcrowded.
Ms Varela said the incident at Sabaneta prison had been "the result of an internal war within the prison".
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