Ferocious ambush in Venezuela: four soldiers and two policemen were killed in a "death trap"

Four soldiers, including a general and two policemen, they were killed in an ambush in Venezuela by strangers in the state of Aragua for reasons still unknown.

A police report published in L & # 39; universal reports that the dead soldiers are Brigadier General Jackson Silva Zapata, First Sergeant Robert Leon Castellano, Second Sergeant Angel Brito and First Corporal Robinson Vizcaya Sojo. The fallen policemen were identified as Bruno Benavides and Jesús Arraiz.

The first reports indicate that they were ambushed, while this Saturday They have been called to act after a "terrorist attack" in the north of the country.

"When they returned, they were intercepted by heavily armed individuals who have not yet been identified, who without saying a word and taking advantage of the relief of the region, they shot the commission"says the report.

Add this in this situation "an exchange of fire at its origin, reversing a unit and leaving four army officers and two police officers without vital signs in the act.

The ambush was reported in La Guacamaya, municipality of Zamora, Aragua. Preliminary reports they do not include any details about the attackers, the weapons they used or if any of them were wounded or killed.

After the failure of the military uprising, the release of opposition leader Leopoldo López and the mbadive demonstrations that took place in Caracas in recent days, Venezuelans are again on the streets, again called by the # 39; opposition. This Saturday, Thousands of people head to military units to ask uniformed military to rise up against Nicolás Maduro.

On the other hand, accompanied by the high command and thousands of soldiers, Maduro asked the uniforms "to be ready to defend the country with weapons in hand if one day the American empire dares to touch this country". "Union, cohesion, discipline, obedience, subordination and supreme loyalty to the Constitution, the homeland, the revolution and the legitimate commander-in-chief," demanded the president in front of 5,300 soldiers, mostly cadets.