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Venezuela, home to one of Latin America’s most thriving television industries, has lost a famous telenovela star to violent crime, a social problem that has increased in recent years in that country. Yanis Chimaras, 51, was violently murdered on Tuesday in an unexpected attack while in the company of two other people:

He was killed early Tuesday in the Caracas suburb of Guatire when he arrived in a car to pick up his daughter’s friend, police said. Chimaras, who was with his daughter and brother, honked the horn repeatedly for the girl to come out.

At the time, robbers were inside the house holding up the girl’s family. They thieves came outside, forced Chimaras out of his vehicle at gunpoint and stabbed him three times, police said. He suffered a punctured lung and bled to death.

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