Troops and police killed by ambush in Venezuela | Chronic

Four soldiers, including a general and two policemen, were killed by strangers in the state of Aragua, in northern Venezuela, local press reported.

A police report published in the online version of El Universal indicates that the dead soldiers are the Brigadier General, Jackson Silva ZapataDirector of the Vocational Training School of the Military Aviation Corps of Venezuela; the sergeant first Robert Leon Castellanothe second sergeant Angel Brito and the first Robinson Vizcaya Sojo.

The fallen police officers were identified as Bruno Benavides and Jesus Arraiz.

The first reports of the case indicate that these soldiers and two police officers were ambushed because they had been summoned for "terrorist attack" in the zone. "Upon their return, they were intercepted by heavily armed individuals who had not yet been identified and who, without saying a word and taking advantage of the relief in the area, fired on the commission."says the report.

Add this in this situation "an exchange of gunfire began, toppling a unit and leaving four army officers and two police officers with no vital signs in the fact"The ambush has been reported in La Guacamaya, municipality of Zamora, in the north of the state of Aragua.

The reports do not contain any details about the attackers, the weapons that they used or if any of them were injured or killed. The Venezuelan armed forces have been on maximum alert since last Tuesday, when a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the president has been appeased. Nicolás Maduro.

He fell a helicopter with 7 crew members

A military helicopter with seven crew members on board today has fallen to the ground in a forested area of ​​the El Hatillo municipality, on the outskirts of Caracas, according to an official report providing no information. information on the health status of the occupants.

"An army helicopter fell this morning in the green area of ​​Oripoto, specifically in El Volcán, with 7 people on board. Our El Hatillo civil protection team supporting the research"reported Elias Sayegh, authority of the municipality, in its gutter Twitter.

The EFE agency cited witnesses who said they heard explosions when the helicopter landed, while a cloud of smoke was high at the scene of the incident. # 39; accident.