Teen shot dead in food truck looting in Venezuela
Caracas, (MILLAT ONLINE):A 19-year-old Venezuelan was shot dead Wednesday when hundreds of people looted trucks carrying flour and chicken in the western city of Guanare, as the oil-rich but impoverished country faces desperate food shortages.
According to police and military reports obtained by AFP the unrest began when about 1,000 people looting the trucks started fighting among themselves.
Jose Materan, 19, received two gunshot wounds and died in hospital, where three others were being treated for injuries.
It was not immediately clear who fired at him.
Many of the looters made off with bags of wheat flour or chicken, police said.
Venezuela is in the throes of a deepening crisis caused by falling oil prices, spiraling inflation,