Caracas: In a horrifying incident, a man has claimed that his 25-year-old son who was jailed last year for robbery, was beaten, dismembered and eaten by fellow inmates at a Venezuelan prison.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, Juan Carlos Herrera said that he had visited the Táchira Detention Center after his son was mutilated and killed.
Herrera said that witnesses had told him how his son was killed and eaten by hungry inmates after riots broke out at the prison.
This incident comes days after shocking reports of Venezuelan food crisis emerged. The reports stated that amid the growing food shortages and economic crisis, prisoners were starving to death in Venezuelan jails.
In his statement, the devastated father of the murdered inmate said, "My son and two others were taken by 40 people, stabbed, hanged to bleed, and then an inmate butchered them to feed all detainees."
"The inmate, with whom I spoke, told me that he was beaten with a hammer in order to force him to eat the remains of the two boys," he added.
"What hurts me most is that I cannot bury my son, I can’t give him a Christian burial," he continued.
Authorities at the detention centre confirmed that the missing inmates are nowhere to be found. However, they have not offered any explanation behind the disappearance of missing inmates.
Venezuela has long been grappling with economic crisis with people starving.
Recently, some images shared by people on social media showed that Venezuela's cash-strapped hospitals were forced to place newborn babies in cardboard boxes instead of incubators, even as the country faces huge economic losses.
