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The National Navy, through a statement, indicated that in facts that are the subject of investigation, three of the Institution’s artillery boats that were in a Fluvial Control Post moored on the banks of the Meta river, in the Vichada department, on the Colombo-Venezuelan border, and that at the time they were unmanned, they were swept away by the current in the early hours of this Saturday.
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According to the statement, and according to a preliminary version, the event occurred “when the sentinel in charge of the safety of the boats realizes that, due to the effects of the strong current, the boats are dragged by the river, without having the opportunity to retrieve them. In this situation, the displacement of Units of the Eastern Naval Force of the Colombian Navy was ordered to recover the boats. ”
In the same information they explain that the boats were carried by the river entering Venezuelan territory, which prevented the Colombian units from searching and rescuing them.
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Taking into account the foregoing, the Oriente Naval Force proceeded to establish communication with the Venezuelan Navy Naval Post in Puerto Páez, in order to find out about the situation and coordinate the recovery of the boats, to which they expressed their will to support, informing that they would make the location of the boats and the corresponding delivery. Later, In the course of the morning, the Venezuelan Navy confirmed having found the boats, which will be delivered to the Colombian Navy once the authorization of the superior command is obtained “, adds the statement.
What the Bolivarian Navy says
For its part, the Bolivarian National Armed Force reported this Saturday that it seized of three combat boats with emblems of the Colombian Navy, which were “in a state of abandonment” and unmanned on a bank of the Orinoco River, in the southern state of Bolívar.
According to a Fanb statement, the boats, model Evinrude of the American manufacturer Boston Wheeler, were armed “with .50 and M60 caliber machine guns”, and they had their “respective ammunition”.
“All this material is in the custody of the Fanb. The Public Ministry and the other institutions of the Venezuelan State carry out the corresponding investigations,” the Venezuelan military added in the statement.
The seizures occur almost a week after the Nicolás Maduro government said it thwarted two maritime incursions into the coastal states of La Guaira and Aragua, for which it accused the opposition and the governments of Colombia and the United States.
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