Venezuelan Woman Shot Dead During Latest Looting

A Venezuelan woman died Monday after being shot in the face when looters raided state food warehouses in the latest unrest in the crisis-hit OPEC nation, her family said. Relatives of hotel worker Jenny Ortiz, 42, said she died in the hospital after being shot during the melee late Sunday in San Cristobal, a town near the border of Colombia, where looting and anti-government protests have been occurring in recent months. Family including her mother-in-law Carmen Rosa, 58, who said she...

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