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Venezuelan prisoners die of drug overdose following riots

Venezuelan prisoners die of drug overdose following riots
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Thirty-five Venezuelan prisoners have died after overdosing on medicines after storming the prison clinic.

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More than 100 others are still being treated.

The prisoners had been protesting about the conditions at the Uribana prison.

Relatives accused guards of poisoning the inmates.

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