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Venezuela: Two police suspected of killing ex-general
Gen Velasquez gunned down on Saturday

TWO of four suspects in the murder of a retired Venezuelan general have been identified as police from an opposition-controlled district of the capital.

Major General Felix Velasquez was gunned down in front of his five-year-old granddaughter on Saturday by two men on a motorcycle in the Santa Monica district of Caracas.

He had been a senior commander in the Bolivarian National Militia, a popular reserve force founded by late president Hugo Chavez and an important pillar of Venezuela’s budding socialist revolution.

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