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Venezuela: 21-year-old burnt alive by Mud mob
VENEZUELAN opposition thugs burned a young man alive at the weekend on suspicion of being a government supporter.
Orlando Jose Figueras was set upon by a mob of Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition supporters in the Altamira suburb of the capital Caracas.
Video footage taken from a nearby building showed the 21-year-old being surrounded and attacked on the ground by dozens of masked militants, who then doused him with petrol and set him on fire.
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