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| Venezuelan officials killed as voting starts | |
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| A leading candidate in Sunday's assembly elections and an opposition activist have been killed in Venezuela. | |
| The killings took place before voting started to elect a new assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution. | |
| The opposition says it is a power grab by President Nicolás Maduro and is boycotting the vote. | |
| The government says the constituent assembly is the only way to bring peace back to the country after months of violent protests. | |
| José Felix Pineda, a 39-year-old lawyer running in the election, was shot in his home on Saturday night local time, a senior Venezuelan minister said. | |
| Ricardo Campos, a youth secretary with the opposition Acción Democrática party, was shot dead during a protest, the head of the national assembly said. | |
| Venezuelan newspaper El Universal said two other men were also killed in protests. | |
| On the eve of the vote, protesters blocked roads in the capital in defiance of a ban on demonstrations. | |
| The security forces have used armoured vehicles to dispel protesters in the Caracas district of El Paraíso amid the sound of gunfire, AFP says, citing local reports. | |
| Mr Maduro cast his own ballot shortly after polling stations opened at 06:00 (11:00 BST). | |
| In a speech broadcast on TV, the president predicted a "big victory", calling the vote "the most important election held in Venezuela's political system". | |
| However, electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena acknowledged that some voting machines had been attacked and burned in parts of the country. |