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VENEZUELA: 8 victims electrocuted to death while looting shops
No less than eight people were electrocuted to death during a looting incident in the Caracas area of Venezuela according to local fire fighters.
Recounting the incident, a fire fighter who asked not to be identified said the victims were electrocuted when a group of looters broke into a bakery in the working class neighbourhood of El Valle.
The public prosecutor’s office said later on Friday it was investigating 11 deaths in El Valle, adding that “some” victims had died from being electrocuted.
“Yesterday around 9 or 10 (p.m.)things got pretty scary, a group of people carrying weapons came down … and started looting,” said Hane Mustafa, owner of a small supermarket in El Valle, where broken bottles of soy sauce and ketchup littered the floor between bare shelves.
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“The security situation is not in the hands of the government. We lost everything here,” said Mustafa, who said he could hear the looting from his home, which is adjacent to the store.
The incident occurred amid violent protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by opponents accusing him of seeking to create a dictatorship.
Nine other people have also been killed in violence associated with a wave of anti-government demonstrations in the past three weeks in which protesters have clashed with security forces in melees lasting well into the night.
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