Dramatic shooting on the border between Venezuela and Colombia: there is a wounded and violence increases

Intense shooting was recorded this afternoon near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge, which has generated panic and has so far injured someone with a stray bullet. The images are dramatic.

The border crossing linking the cities of Cúcuta to San Antonio del Táchira was the scene of the episode. The sources of Migration Colombia said that it was "isolated" and that it was happening at 11:40 local time, on a trail known as La Playita, apparently between criminal gangs for control of the area.

The injured person is a woman who has been shot in the back. and that she is admitted to Erasmo Meoz University Hospital in Cucuta.

In social media videos, you can see how people crossing the bridge, including those carrying bags, crouch at the start of the shoot. The crowd tried to protect themselves with the Simón Bolívar fences, on the Venezuelan side and on the Colombian side.

"At the present time, with our special operational groups, we are maintaining security on the Simón Bolívar international bridge," Cúcuta police commander José Luis Palomino said on Twitter. Meanwhile, the director of Migration Colombia, Christian Krüger Sarmiento, arrived in the area of ​​the shooting to verify the situation.

On April 4, the Colombian government announced that it would attempt to put in place immigration controls in the illegal pbades of the Norte de Santander department, whose capital is Cúcuta and where thousands of people pbad daily. after the closure of Nicolás Maduro's bridges last February.

For Simón Bolívar, the Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela (militarized police) only allows the crossing sick people, pregnant women, children and the elderly.

According to a spokesman for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on April 5, the official closure of the crossing of the border with Colombia and Brazil by the Chavista regime This does not stop the exodus of Venezuelans, thousands of them leave every day of the country.

In fact, there have recently been strong tensions on the Simón Bolívar bridge when some 46,000 desperate people tried to cross it back and forth in front of the opposition of the security forces of the two countries.