
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 5, 1994                   TAG: 9401050039
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA                                LENGTH: Short

VENGEANCE FOR KILLING LED TO PRISON RIOT

Indian inmates seeking revenge for the death of a fellow prisoner were blamed Tuesday for starting Venezuela's deadliest prison riot.

The toll from Monday's riot and fire at the Maracaibo National Jail rose to 106 dead and 54 injured. Six prisoners died of injuries Tuesday and more were expected to die, said Dora Bracho Barreto, national prisons director.

Tuesday, 40 inmates escaped from a jail in Maracay, 60 miles outside Caracas, through an underground tunnel. Bracho Barreto said 10 were shot and killed by the national guard, seven were captured and 23 were at large.

The melee in Maracaibo began when about 400 Guajiro Indians broke out of their cell block and threw Molotov cocktails at cell blocks housing non-Indian prisoners, said Lt. Col. Aldo Boccone, commander of the national guard unit that quelled the riot.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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