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Venezuelan hostages liberated peacefully

by rahul | June 30, 2008 at 08:34 pm

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Caracas, Venezuela, 30 June 2008. This evening, Venezuelan government announced it had reached a deal with jail inmates that had kept over 120 hostages for more than a week. Since Sunday 22 June 2008, 120 people - including 22 children - had been kidnaped by jail inmates at Lagunillas, Merida state, Western Venezuela. Hostages were family members of inmates that had been held captive during a jail visit Sunday. After the statement on the agreement, hostages left their captivity on a bus heavily guarded by the army. The government agreed to speed up criminal administrative procedures and improve jail conditions.

In a related event, over 328 people refuse to leave another jail in Bolivar State, South Eastern Venezuela. They were claiming an improvement in jail infrastructure.

Sources: Globovision, Unionradio, VTV, YVKE