Disturbing video footage recorded by an official at a jail in Venezuela captured the horrifying moment prison guards tortured naked inmates and used fighting roosters to attack them.

At least 82 inmates were forced to lay face down naked with their hands behind their heads in a court yard at the Police Coordination Center in Anaco, Anzoátegui last Friday, Venezuelan outlet ACN reported.

The prisoners were reportedly beaten for more than two hours and were denied food and water for 24 hours.

The guards allegedly hosed down cells with fuel to force prisoners out into the yard.

They then allegedly used a hose to spray them with water and placed fighting roosters on their bodies, who left bite marks and scratchs on the defenseless inmates.

Family members said the prisoners had recently gone on a strike to protest the lack of food and water served by the staff at the jail.

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Inmates were also demanding that their visitors be permitted to bring them medicine.

A frightening 45-second video of the abuse was recorded on cellphone, and later posted online by Venezuelan reporter Alexandra Belandia.

Prisoners are shown lined up besides each other as several officers stand on the opposite side of the yard.

An officer is seen taunting one of the inmates, who was accused by the guards of being responsible for leading the strike.

He briefly looks up at the guards before one steps in and hits him over the head with a wooden board.

Guards at the Police Coordination Center in Anaco, Anzoátegui forced prisoners out of their cells, doused them with waters and then laughed at them as two roosters fought on top of their naked bodies

Guards stand near dozens of prisoners who were tortured for two hours at a Venezuelan jail last Friday

Tarek William Saab, who serves as the Attorney General of Venezuela's Constituent National Assembly, has announced an investigation into the incident.

In a tweet published Monday evening, Saab charged commissioner Hernán Díaz and two other officers, who he did not name, with being responsible for abusing the inmates' human rights.

Diario El Vistazo said they had identified Jackson Guevara, José Fernández y José Mendoza as three of the prison guards who were being investigated for their roles in the attack.