Eight Venezuelan soldiers kidnapped by Colombian armed groups ‘rescued’ 01 Jun 2021 / 16:20 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
CARACAS: Eight Venezuelan soldiers who had been kidnapped by armed groups operating on the Colombian border have been rescued, Caracas said Monday.
“The eight military professionals kidnapped by Colombian illegal armed groups. were rescued” in a military operation, the Venezuelan defense ministry said in a statement.
The soldiers are “safe and sound,“ it said.
The statement also said the military was looking for two missing soldiers but did not give further details.
Venezuela’s armed forces have engaged in clashes with Colombian armed groups along the border since March 21, displacing thousands of civilians who fled to Colombia.
June 01, 2021 Tatjana Muskiet
Eight Venezuelan soldiers seized by an armed group near the Colombian border have been rescued, Venezuela’s Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino says. Gen Padrino did not give any details about the mission in which the eight were freed, or of the captors who had taken them. A group of Colombian rebels had said it was behind the abduction of the soldiers. There have been skirmishes between the Venezuelan army and former rebels. A group calling itself 10th Front Martín Villa said in a letter it sent to the Red Cross in May that it had seized the soldiers during clashes on 23 April in the Venezuelan state of Apure, which borders Colombia.(BBC)…[+]
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