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Murdered Venezuelan man taken to morgue in taxi

22 Aug 2007 19:34:43 GMT
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CARACAS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A Caracas family was forced to send a murdered son to the morgue in a taxi after waiting five hours for police who never arrived, Venezuelan media reported on Wednesday.

Heavy rains threatened to wash away Kelvin Jose Pinango's body which was left near a creek in the poor 23 de Enero neighborhood after the 20-year-old was killed on Monday in what appeared to be an attempt to steal his motorcycle, the newspaper El Universal reported.

"We dragged the body to the edge (of the creek) and after five hours we hired a taxi," one family member told the paper, asking not to be identified.

Caracas, one of the most dangerous cities in Latin America, reports dozens of murders each week.

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