(AP) CARACAS, Venezuela - More than 20 people were killed during a prison riot as two groups of inmates waged a gunbattle inside the penitentiary, Venezuelan officials said Monday.

Members of the National Guard take shelter during a riot outside Uribana Prison in Barquisimeto, Lara state, Venezuela, on Friday. Dozens were killed in a classh at the prison, local media reported.

Venezuela's chief prosecutor reported late Wednesday that 68 people died in a fire that swept through the cell area inside a police station, which townspeople said followed a disturbance by ...

CARACAS, Venezuela The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more ...

A prison riot in Venezuela has left at least 40 dead and 50 others injured, authorities said this week. Prisoners at the Llanos Penitentiary Center in Guanare demanded that their relatives be ...

Prison where riot took place has been evacuated; 120 people injured and 61 killed; Deadliest riot in country in nearly two centuries; CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities on Sunday ...

URIBANA, Venezuela — Sixty-one people were reported killed and 120 injured in a prison riot in Venezuela after troops entered the complex to confiscate weapons.

A riot at a Venezuelan prison left 50 people dead and dozens injured, CNN affiliate Globovision reported, the latest in a series of violent incidents in the nation’s crowded detention system.

Venezuela prison riot kills 9 inmates, injures 20. A prison riot between rival gangs left nine inmates dead and 20 more wounded, Venezuelan media said Saturday. March 22, 2008, ...

A battle between national guard forces and prisoners at Venezuela’s Uribana prison in western Lara state has left 58 dead, prisons Minister Iris Varela said today.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Human rights groups Saturday urged Venezuela’s government to take action to improve conditions in the nation’s overcrowded prisons, described as some of the worst in ...