Venezuelan policeman murdered in Caracas brutality

Uproar police face dissidents in Caracas. 8 May 2014 Unconfirmed reports say the police were let go on from structures

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A policeman has been shot dead in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after security powers split up challenge camps, authorities say.

President Nicolas Maduro said the officer was executed by an expert rifleman and marked the dissenters "dangerous".

More than 240 individuals were captured after the predawn strikes on four camps in the east of the capital.

Since hostile to-government challenges started in February, more than 40 individuals have been murdered, and thousands more captured.

"An expert sharpshooter executed the policeman while he was cleaning trash left by these vicious, deadly nonconformists," a grave Mr Maduro said throughout a broadcast address.

"He was abhorrently slaughtered," he included.

Dissenters toss poisonous gas canisters over at police in Caracas. 8 May 2014 Violence ejected after security strengths moved into clear four dissent camps

Cleared challenge camp in Caracas. 8 May 2014 Student pioneers say police assaulted tranquil dissidents

Three other policemen were injured, one by gunfire, Venezuelan media reported.

Inner part Minister Miguel Rodriguez said police had discovered "medications, weapons, explosives and mortars" in the camps.

The roughness ejected after strikes by parts of the National Guard split up four tent camps kept up by learner activists.

Many demonstrators spilled on to the boulevards and set up blockades. Conceal adolescents tossed stones and petrol shells, while police reacted with poisonous gas.

Witnesses said shots were discharged from structures into the boulevards, however this couldn't be affirmed.

'Savage assaults'

Mr Rodriguez said 243 nonconformists had been confined and that the powers were presently deciding whom to charge.

He said nonconformists had utilized the camps as bases to launch "vicious assaults", after which they might "cover up... saying they were partaking in a serene dissent".

Recently, the weight bunch Human Rights Watch blamed Venezuelan security powers for illicitly confining and mishandling dissidents.

Exhibits were activated by dissatisfaction with Venezuela's high wrongdoing rates and poor financial circumstance however have developed into a more extensive hostile to-government development.

People have been at the front line of the challenges, raising blockades and arranging exhibitions and sit-ins.

The legislature has named the dissenters "rightist fomenters", blaming them for inciting an upset against the left-wing administration of President Maduro "with US support".