Over dozen inmates injured, one dead in Venezuela prison blast

  15 September 2016    Read: 1092
Over dozen inmates injured, one dead in Venezuela prison blast
At least one person was killed and 22 others were injured when an explosion occurred in a prison in the Venezuelan city of San Juan de los Morros.
At least one person was killed and 22 others were injured when an explosion occurred in a prison in the Venezuelan city of San Juan de los Morros, in Guarico State, the country’s Interior Ministry said in a statement.

"The authorities reported…16 inmates injured and one died. In addition, six relatives of prisoners who were carrying out their visits, were injured," the statement said, as quoted by El Universal on Wednesday.

Some Venezuelan media reports said that at least two people were killed by the blast and 27 others were wounded. The explosion occurred on visiting day.

On August 4, five prisoners were killed and at least 30 wounded in a bomb attack on a prison in the Venezuelan city of Maracay.

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