Parliamentary row disolves into fistfight
A fistfight broke out between government and opposition MPs during a parliamentary debate in Venezuela.
Rival members traded punches as tempers frayed in a row over a controversial media bill, reports the BBC.
The incident forced a 10-minute suspension of proceedings in the National Assembly.
Venezuelan television showed images of the brawl which began after the bill was slipped into the agenda against the opposition's wishes.
It started when Nicolas Maduro, of President Hugo Chavez's Movement of the Fifth Republic, and Nicolas Sosa, of the opposition Movement for Socialism (MAS), started pushing and shoving each other.
Their colleagues managed to separate them but no sooner had order been restored when another scuffle broke out.
This time Mr Maduro accused another opposition member, Roger Rondon, of hitting him on the head with a folder.
Mr Maduro then ran after Mr Rondon and the two exchanged blows before other opposition members broke up the fight.
The violence erupted over draft legislation which Mr Chavez sees as a way of regulating the country's often stridently anti-government private media.
Opposition parties say it threatens freedom of speech and have nicknamed it the "gag law".