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Venezuela prison riot leaves 47 dead, 75 wounded

A screenshot shows members of the National Guard deployed outside Los Llanos prison, in Guanare on May 2 after a riot. [AFP]

A prison riot has left at least 47 dead and 75 wounded in western Venezuela, a country where NGOs and inmates' families regularly denounce unsanitary conditions, violence and overcrowding behind bars.

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