Pregnant Venezuelan teen fatally shot in holiday food line


CARACAS: A pregnant 18-year-old Venezuelan woman was fatally shot in the head early Sunday in Caracas as she waited in line at a National Guard outpost to buy ham for her New Year’s meal, relatives said.

Alexandra Conopio, who was five months pregnant, was shot as she and other residents of the Antimano neighborhood in the west of the capital waited to buy ham at subsidized prices, her stepfather told AFP.

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