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Funerals begin for prisoners killed in Venezuelan jail fire

(29 Mar 2018) It wasn't long after Daniel Marquez's family showed up at the Venezuelan police station jail where he'd been locked up for nearly a year when billows of black smoke began flowing from the building. Guards told them to flee, forcing them and other inmate relatives to watch in horror from afar as the flames quickly grew. One day later, Marquez's family took his blackened remains home in a simple wooden coffin, their despair as wide as the questions surrounding the blaze that killed 68 people in one of Venezuela's worst jail fires. Varying versions of exactly what happened Wednesday inside the police station's crowded jail cells floated Thursday among relatives and human rights groups amid a deafening silence from officials who have yet to provide a full account. Marquez's family said they received a call from him shortly before the fire claiming that guards were pouring gasoline in the cellblock, prompting them to go as quickly as they could to the police station detention centre. Another version suggested it was inmates themselves who had set the blaze in order to escape. Authorities have yet to confirm what happened. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...