Mayor: city worker killed in Caracas while clearing a street barricade
Mayor: city worker killed in Caracas while clearing a street barricade
By Fabiola Sanchez, The Associated Press March 19, 2014 4:50 PM
CARACAS, Venezuela - A municipal worker was fatally shot while removing a street barricade in a middle-class Caracas neighbourhood, Venezuela's federal prosecutor's office said Wednesday, raising to 27 the official death toll from more than a month's worth of protests.
According to preliminary information, Francisco Alcides Madrid Rosendo, 32, was shot multiple times around 10 p.m. Tuesday while he and others were taking down a barricade in the Montalban neighbourhood in the city's western section, according to a statement from the federal prosecutor's office.
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The body earlier this month approved a declaration supporting President Nicolas Maduro's efforts to start a dialogue with the political opposition. Panama, the United States and Canada voted against it.
Also Wednesday, petroleum workers representative Marla Munoz said on state television that the offices of the oil and mining ministry and state-owned oil company were simultaneously attacked earlier that morning with Molotov cocktails in the state of Barinas, southwest of Caracas. She said the attack was apparently aimed at scaring oil workers into withdrawing their support of the government.
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