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Venezuela: teargas explosion at club in Caracas kills 17 people
Source: Reuters
Venezuela: teargas explosion at club in Caracas kills 17 people
Reuters
Sat 16 Jun 2018 17.43 BST
At least 17 people died at a Caracas nightclub early on Saturday morning when a person activated a teargas grenade inside, Venezuela’s interior minister Néstor Reverol said.
Over 500 people were at a party at the Los Cotorros club in the El Paraiso neighbourhood when the device went off at about 3am during a fight between several people, causing a stampede towards the exits, Reverol said.
Eleven people suffocated to death when the gas filled the club’s confined space, said Noris Villanueva, an autopsy assistant at the local Perez Carreno hospital, who examined their bodies. It was not clear how the other six died.
Eight of those who died were under 18, Reverol said, and five people were injured.
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Reuters
Sat 16 Jun 2018 17.43 BST
At least 17 people died at a Caracas nightclub early on Saturday morning when a person activated a teargas grenade inside, Venezuela’s interior minister Néstor Reverol said.
Over 500 people were at a party at the Los Cotorros club in the El Paraiso neighbourhood when the device went off at about 3am during a fight between several people, causing a stampede towards the exits, Reverol said.
Eleven people suffocated to death when the gas filled the club’s confined space, said Noris Villanueva, an autopsy assistant at the local Perez Carreno hospital, who examined their bodies. It was not clear how the other six died.
Eight of those who died were under 18, Reverol said, and five people were injured.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/venezuela-teargas-explosion-at-club-in-caracas-kills-17-people
