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These shocking pictures show the extraordinary injuries suffered by a man allegedly smashed in the face by a tear gas grenade during protests in Venezuela.
The worker, whose name has not been revealed, was pictured bleeding and with severe swelling to his face during recent violence in the capital city of Caracas.
Dozens have been killed and hundreds injured since April in violent protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro who has led the South American country since the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013.
Leading opposition politician Henrique Capriles, the governor of the Venezuelan state of Miranda, singled out the injury to the man claiming it showed state violence.
The man is believed to have been been standing in the middle of a protest in the Las Marcedes area of Caracas when a tear gas canister allegedly launched by police officers hit him in the face.
Mr Capriles said: 'This worker was attacked by a bomb launched by police officers. He could have been killed as a lot of Venezuelans have been killed before. Praying for his speedy recovery.'
He accused President Maduro of effectively staging a coup after the country's Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which supports the president, took over legislative powers of the opposition-led National Assembly.
Mr Capriles added: 'This is Maduro and his self-coup, it is a fraud to make a constitution to serve and protect those with connections! Venezuela does not accept this!
'The only ones who can decide to have a new constitutional process are the Venezuelan people. Not Maduro nor the judges.'
Protests against the constitutional changes continue in Caracas, and around the country, where protesters accuse the president of trying to hang on to power.
Local media say that 62 people have so far lost their lives in the protests. The most recent was a 46-year-old woman who was shot during a demonstration in the western Venezuelan state of Lara.