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| Government, Inmates in Talks to End Prision Riot | |
| 2011-06-24 | |
| Rewritten from a CNN summary... Negotiators for the Venezuelan government are awaiting the decision from prison inmates to end their stand off, now in its seventh day. The prison riot began June 12th in two prisons when two rival prison gangs attacked each the using weapons. The death toll in the riots stands at 22. The Rodeo I prison riot ended a few days ago, while at Rodeo II a core group of about 50 inmates refuse to surrender to authorities, but are in contact and negotiations. Both prisons are in Guatire, which is about 50 kilometers from Caracas,the capital of Venezuela. So far Venezuelan National Guard troops have seized seven rifles, five shotguns, three carbines, one submachine gun, 20 guns and four revolvers, 91 weapons magazines and eight hand grenades.
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| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 *blink* Thank you, S. I hope someone who understands what they're looking at will explain -- clearly I was not intended by Nature for the reality of weaponry, only the Platonic idea. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-24 17:37 |
| #3 Here: http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/06/20/arsenal-seized-from-inmates-of-el-rodeo-i-jail.shtml 1 picture, top row of pistols... you'll know the shutter-gun when you see it. |
| Posted by: S 2011-06-24 13:17 |
| #2 The world is a magical place, indeed, if one of the Rab's shutter guns can find its way to the far side of the world. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-24 11:09 |
| #1 On one of the Vzland blogs or El Univeral (I can't remember) there was the obligatory picture of the assortment of weapons captured from the I'll try to find. Looked like a single shot breech loading pistol with a tree carved body. The sort of heat you'd expect the neighborhood jinn to be packing if you ran into it near the spot. |
| Posted by: S 2011-06-24 08:11 |