A military report cited by AFP news agency said detainees at the Los Llanos prison on Friday staged “a disturbance of public order … resulting in 17 deaths and nine injuries”.
The army gave no reason for the upheaval, but a prisoners’ rights group and a legislator said the riot resulted from prison authorities banning prisoners’ relatives from bringing them food, as is customary in Venezuelan jails, as part of coronavirus containment efforts.
“The prisoners are upset
