Caracas sources reported that fire allegedly set during an attempted jailbreak from Venezuelan police holding cells killed 68 people on Wednesday. Meanwhile the country’s top prosecutor and an inmates’ rights group said the blaze at the detention facility in Carabobo state is the latest in a series of deadly incidents in Venezuela’s overcrowded jails.



Meanwhile Carlos Nieto, head of Una Ventana a la Libertad, said that “some burned to death and others asphyxiated” after setting fire to mattresses and stealing a guard’s gun in an attempt to break out. Moreover the dead included two women thought to have been visiting the jail at the time of the incident. Further Rafael Lacava, the governor of Carabobo state, expressed his "consternation" over the events but did not provide a toll.

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Accordingly Venezuela’s prisons suffer from dire overcrowding and a shortage of basic supplies, struggling under the deepening economic crisis that is gripping the once wealthy oil producing country. Moreover "All the police stations in Venezuela are facing similar or worse conditions of overcrowding, lack of food and disease". Moreover the association said 65 people died last year in the holding cells due to violence, malnutrition or tuberculosis.

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