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Judi Lynn

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Thu Oct 1, 2015, 08:23 PM Oct 2015

Three Nabbed In Venezuela With More Than 1.5 Tons Of Explosives

Three Nabbed In Venezuela With More Than 1.5 Tons Of Explosives


CARACAS, Oct 1 (BERNAMA-NNN- EFE)-- The National Bolivarian Police Force, or CPNB, captured three people who had in their possession 1,550 kilos (3,414 lbs.) of "explosive material" that they were going to sell to a "paramilitary contact," Venezuela's interior minister said Wednesday.

"CPNB caught three members of a band red-handed in downtown Caracas with 1,550 kilos of an explosive material," Gustavo Gonzalez said on Twitter, where he also noted that "the captured suspects were intending to sell the material to a paramilitary contact who was coming from the border with Colombia."

The announcement came after last weekend there were at least three grenade attacks on police posts that wounded more than a dozen people.

The Attorney General's Office reported on Monday that it launched an investigation of the three attacks, while the governor of the central state of Miranda, Henrique Capriles, said that the number of such attacks had risen to five.

More:
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v8/wn/newsworld.php?id=1175659

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