Government opposition supporters bust into National Assembly and beat Venezuelan lawmakers with rudimentary weapons – PB/TK
Venezuelan lawmakers beaten in latest violent flare-up –
By Silene Ramírez and Carlos Rawlins / July 2017
Pipe-wielding government supporters burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress on Wednesday, witnesses said, attacking lawmakers and journalists in the latest flare-up of violence during a political crisis.
By mid-afternoon, a crowd of roughly 100 people was still besieging the building, trapping people inside. Some of the those outside brandished pistols and some shouted they would cut water and power supplies, witnesses said.
The crowd gathered from early outside the National Assembly building in downtown Caracas, chanting in favor of President Nicolas Maduro. By late morning, several dozen people ran past the gates with rudimentary weapons and went on the attack.
They injured at least three opposition lawmakers who stumbled bloodied and dazed around the assembly’s corridors, witnesses said. Some journalists also were robbed.
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