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Pensioner looking for cheap goods killed in Venezuela supermarket crush

Democratic Unity coalition says Maria Aguirre died and 75 were injured amid chaos when troops tear gassed a 5,000-strong crowd looking for subsidised foodAn 80-year-old Venezuelan woman died, possibly from trampling, in a scrum outside a state supermarket selling subsidised goods, the opposition and media said. The melee at the store in Sabaneta, the birthplace of former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, was the latest such incident in a country where economic hardship and food shortages are creating long queues and scuffles.

 

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