Venezuelan security forces battled
protesters who lit fires and hurled stones on Wednesday in rage at President
Nicolas Maduro's decree to create an alternative congress, with another
fatality taking the death toll to 34 during a month of unrest, Reuters
reported. In a familiar pattern in protests against the socialist government,
thousands of opposition supporters rallied peacefully at first before being
blocked, sparking fights around the city between masked youths and soldiers. One
17-year-old protester died in the melee from an object that hit him in the
neck, said Gerardo Blyde, a district mayor for the opposition. "A young
man with all his life ahead. He simply fought for a better country," Blyde
said on Twitter of the case which the Venezuelan state prosecutor's office said
it would investigate. More than 200 people were injured as fights raged in
various parts of the capital, Blyde and another opposition mayor said. More…
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