He said the dead included two women who were staying overnight at the station, but he didn’t provide any further details. Saab said four prosecutors had been named to determine what happened at the state police headquarters in Valencia, a town in Carabobo state about 160 kilometres west of Caracas. It was one of the worst jail disasters in Venezuela, where human rights groups complain about poor conditions in prisons and jails. Carlos Nieto Palma, director of A Window to Freedom, said officials should be held accountable for failing to address the poor conditions in police station jails. “What happened today in Carabobo is a sign of that.”Opposition lawmaker Juan Miguel Matheus demanded that the pro-government leader of Carabobo state inform relatives about what happened.

Source: National Post March 28, 2018 22:16 UTC