Helicopter carrying President Duque was shot at close to the Venezuela border on Friday.
The Colombian authorities is providing a reward of practically $800,000 for data resulting in the seize of these behind an assault on a helicopter carrying President Ivan Duque close to the Venezuela border on Friday.
The helicopter was approaching Cucuta airport on a flight from Sardinata when a number of photographs – apparently from rifles – had been fired at it.
Duque was flying with defence minister Diego Molano, inside minister Daniel Palacios and different officers on the time.
Nobody on board was injured, however photographs launched by the president’s workplace confirmed the tail and fundamental blade had been hit.
“A reward of as much as 3bn Colombia pesos [$796,000] is being provided” for data resulting in “these chargeable for this terrorist assault”, Molano stated on Saturday in a video posted to social media.
Normal Jorge Vargas, the nationwide police chief, stated a search workforce despatched to a close-by Cucuta neighbourhood discovered an AK-47 and a 7.62-calibre rifle “bearing the mark of the Venezuelan armed forces”.
Ofrecemos una recompensa hasta de 3.000 millones de pesos por información que permita ubicar a los responsables del atentado contra el presidente @IvanDuque. Convocamos a la unión de los colombianos con la #FuerzaPública para derrotar juntos el terrorismo: @Diego_Molano pic.twitter.com/jU7C8p9RZQ
— Mindefensa (@mindefensa) June 26, 2021
Translation: “We provide a reward of as much as 3,000 million pesos [$796,000] for data that enables finding these chargeable for the assault in opposition to the president @IvanDuque. We name for the union of Colombians with the #Public Drive to defeat terrorism collectively, ” Molano stated.
Duque has repeatedly accused Venezuela’s socialist chief, Nicolas Maduro, of giving refuge to Colombian dissidents and armed insurgent fighters.
Bogota and Caracas broke off diplomatic relations shortly after Duque, a conservative, got here to energy in 2018.
‘Our state is powerful’
Earlier on Friday, Duque had attended an occasion within the Catatumbo area, one of many fundamental coca-growing areas in a rustic that’s the world’s main cocaine exporter.
Holdouts from the disbanded FARC insurgent group, an lively fighter group known as the Nationwide Liberation Military (ELN), and different armed bands have been preventing over drug trafficking revenues alongside the lengthy and porous border with Venezuela.
“We’re not frightened by violence or acts of terrorism,” Duque stated after the assault on his chopper. “Our state is powerful.”
Colombia has been experiencing a few of its worst violence in years, significantly in rural areas together with the border zone.