Prison riot kills at least 37 inmates in Venezuela
Media reports quoted witnesses as saying that they heard multiple gunshots.
State governor Liborio Guarulla has called it a "massacre".
At least 14 officials were injured in the riot, prosecutors said.
Prison monitoring groups, A Window to Freedom and the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory, have stated that all 37 killed were inmates.
The prison had 105 inmates at the time of the riot.
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