Caracas-Sana
The Venezuelan army announced the killing of eight of its soldiers in recent days during battles with Colombian armed groups in the southwest of the country on the border with Colombia.
Yesterday, the Venezuelan Ministry of Defense published a statement containing the names of the eight soldiers who were killed during the fighting, without giving details, according to what AFP reported today.
The ministry had spoken in a statement last Monday about violent battles between the army and armed groups, noting that there were deaths on both sides in this region.
Caracas confirms that these groups are laying anti-personnel mines and working in the field of drug smuggling, while a security source in Colombia said that these militants are dissidents from the former rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the Colombian Military Intelligence says that these groups that work without a unified leadership and are financed by drug smuggling. Secret mines have been reinforced in isolated areas.
