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Pedro Camacho

Venezuelan Attorney General says protesters 'use ketchup' to simulate blood as NGOs report at least 11 dead

Venezuela's Attorney General Tarek William Saab (Credit: AFP / Yuri CORTEZ)

Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, claimed that the Public Ministry has recorded 1,062 arrests during the protests that have taken the country by storm since the government claimed it won the presidential elections without showing granular data, something questioned by several heads of state.

But the press conference took a turn for the bizarre when Saab suggested that in many of those injured during the protests were using ketchup to simulate blood:

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