Venezuela: 4 dead and 20 wounded by the crackdown and fire of 2 trucks with help

AP, Telam and DPA / Europa Press Agencies

Venezuelan opposition MP Juan Andrés Mejía reported this afternoon that four people had been killed and at least 20 injured in the crackdown at border crossings by police and Venezuelan military forces preventing the pbadage of trucks. humanitarian aid.

"They have also generated violence on the border with Brazil, we have witnessed the worst face of this murderous regime.In Santa Elena de Uairén, there is a mbadacre, four dead and more than twenty injured by bullets," he said. declared the anti-Chavez legislator on his Twitter account. .

Alfredo Romero and Gonzalo Himiob, directors of the Criminal Forum, increased the number of injured to 29 people.

"The situation in Santa Elena de Uairén is extremely critical: 29 people were shot and wounded, they were admitted to Santa Elena Hospital in Uairén and four were murdered," Romero said in a video published on Twitter.

Trucks on fire

Two of the US aid trucks sent to the Colombian-Venezuelan border were set on fire at the Francisco de Paula Santander Bridge that connects the Colombian city of Cucuta to the Venezuelan city of Ureña. Twenty people were injured, including a girl.

"We were here to protest, to take humanitarian aid peacefully and we were ambushed by the Bolivarian National Police.The truck blocked us and started firing shotguns and tear gas," he said. One of the protesters in the newspaper. Colombian television Caracol.

"There are a lot of wounded here, two gangsters were kidnapped and burned," added the opposition activist. In television pictures, you can see a thick column of black smoke in the distance. The wounded are cared for in a Colombian migration tent installed on the Colombian side of the bridge.

Colombia and Venezuela are currently experiencing maximum tension at the borders because of the US intention to send humanitarian aid to Venezuela via Colombia, with the support of Venezuelan opposition and despite the refusal of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.

This dispute is part of the open political crisis after the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó opposition, declared himself president in charge of the country on Jan. 23 because he considered Maduro's new presidential mandate illegal.

Complaint of truck on fire

The first three trucks that left Colombia to transport humanitarian aid cargo to Ureña, in the state of Táchira, Venezuela, were set on fire by the Bolivarian National Police (PNB).

This was declared by a journalist of the newspaper Caracas The National who said he checked that the vehicles driving the caravan, with its load of medical supplies and food, were completely cremated.