The Colombian authorities are investigating complaints of inhabitants of a village on the border with Venezuela shots fired by soldiers from the neighboring country that caused property damage, reported today in Bogota, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The office of Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said in a brief statement that "competent authorities" to investigate complaints and to have "a direct dialogue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the neighboring country to clarify the events."
The complaint was made by inhabitants of the village of Punta de Palo in the municipality of Tibu, in the department of Norte de Santander, who claimed that Venezuelan military fired Tuesday from the edge of his country against Colombia, which caused damage to several boats .
A local resident told the newspaper "La Opinion of Cucuta, capital of Norte de Santander, the incident began when several soldiers were asked to fishermen who were on the Colombian side to cross the river border Sardinata to transport them to Colombia, which was rejected by them.
" They asked us to put them through the Colombian side and told them not , which was forbidden to get there. Then one of them took off his camouflage and was in shorts and franelilla and jumped into the water. He reached the middle of the river and saw that it was not able to pass it back. As we do not carry the canoes, they started to shoot at those on the riverbank watching, "said a witness.
He said the villagers took refuge behind trees, but the bullets hit the canoes. The shooting, according to these versions, lasted for nearly four hours .
The commander of the Thirtieth Brigade, General Fernando Pineda, said he received the complaint from some farmers and moved to the command of his institution, which in turn alerted the case to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Courtesy: News 24
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