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title: "Teen is second killed in fresh Venezuela protests: prosecutor"
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# Teen is second killed in fresh Venezuela protests: prosecutor

> A sixteen-year-old boy protesting against President Nicolas Maduro's embattled government was killed Wednesday, prosecutors said, the second to die in the latest round of unrest.

By AFP · Published 27 July 2017, 07:30 SAST

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Prosecutors did not immediately release his name or the circumstances around his death.

But it brings to 105 the number of people killed in four months of violent anti-Maduro protests, being capped with a two-day national strike. DM