CARACAS: At least 23 people were killed in a police operation that took place Friday to Saturday (Saturday to Sunday in Manila) in a poor neighborhood in Venezuela’s capital Caracas, a human rights organization and local press said. The special forces operation occurred in the western La Vega neighborhood, according to Marino Alvarado, director of the Provea human rights nongovernment organization, in a post on Twitter Sunday that cited family members of the deceased, police sources and local press reports. Authorities haven’t commented on the incident, which Alvarado called a “massacre.”