Skeleton-shaped dummies made in white cardboard and bearing Manila envelopes were found Thursday at several points in Caracas, poisoning two officers with the local police in Baruta Municipality who tried to remove one.

The chief of the Baruta Municipality police, Luis Godoy, asserted that around 4:30 a.m. officers found one of the dummies at a highway intersection in east Caracas. After they checked the cardboard skeletons they fell ill with general malaise, sweating and suffocation.

They were taken to the hospital, and doctors confirmed that they were intoxicated with a substance yet to be determined.

Godoy added that this incident was reported to the Scientific, Penal and Criminology Investigation Agency (Cicpc), which launched the relevant investigation and started to remove other dummies found through the town.

The skeletons, an alleged protest against President Hugo Chávez' government, were also found at Prados del Este, Las Mercedes, Los Campitos, Libertador Avenue (Country Club and El Bosque), Ruiz Pineda (Caricuao), San Martín avenue, December 9 and El Paraíso bridges, subway stations Parque del Este, Los Dos Caminos, La Paz and Ruiz Pineda, the Museum of Transportation, highway intersection near CCCT mall, La California bridge, Río de Janeiro avenue, Francisco de Miranda avenue (Parque Cristal building) and Bello Monte by the Guaire River.