Caracas: Venezuela has launched an investigation into the murder of a local opposition leader days before a legislative election, stirring fears of renewed political violence in the volatile South American nation. Luis Diaz, a leader of the opposition Democratic Action party in Guarico state in Venezuela's central plains, was shot towards the end of a public meeting on Wednesday night, the latest of several violent incidents during the campaign. The Public Prosecutor's Office said two of its prosecutors, aided by police investigators, would lead the probe. "There was a burst of 10 shots and he fell...
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