Searchers recovered the remains of 14 people belonging to a group of more than 20 missing miners believed to have been killed by a gang seeking control over a wildcat gold claim in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.

Police investigating the massacre made the grisly discovery in an area of jungle in Bolivar state near where the miners disappeared a week ago, Attorney General Luisa Ortega said in an interview with Globovision.

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