MPs in Venezuela's are recovering from a parliamentary punch-up on Tuesday triggered by a disputed election result.
The fight broke out after MPs supportive of presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro passed a law denying opposition MPs from speaking in the parliament unless they accepted that Maduro had won.
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On Monday figures showed Maduro, the sucessor to Hugo Chavez, had won the election by just 225,000 votes (1.49%.).
Pro-government MPs started throwing punches after opposition members unfurled a protest banner inside the parliament.
Julio Borges, one of the MPs injured in the fight, told a local TV station:"They can beat us, jail us, kill us, but we will not sell out our principles," Borges said. "These blows give us more strength."