Colombian authorities launched a manhunt for 2 suspects after a grenade was tossed inside a transport and transportation firm in Bogotá, the nation’s capital.
Surveillance video confirmed a suspect approaching a window at Wed Envios within the Bogotá northern neighborhood of Usaquén and struggling to take away the explosive’s pin earlier than he opens a door and tosses it inside.
The person took off operating and disappeared from the digicam’s view earlier than escaping along with his confederate aboard a motorbike.
A bomb unit was known as and was capable of take away the grenade, which did not detonate.
The transport heart’s common supervisor, Diego Vélez, instructed El Espectador newspaper that he had been the sufferer of varied extortion makes an attempt by a legal group allegedly operated by Venezuelans.
A suspect flees from the workplace of a transport and transportation firm in Bogotá, Colombia after tossing a grenade on Wednesday. Authorities despatched in a bomb unit that was capable of take away the explosive, which did not detonate
Colombian authorities in Bogotá, the capital, had been capable of take away a grenade that was tossed contained in the workplace of a transport and transportation company on Wednesday. The positioning supervisor instructed El Espectador newspaper that he had obtained threats from a legal group, which he believes could also be led by Venezuelans, asking him to wire $60,000 to a U.S. checking account
Vélez claimed that preliminary threats had been made in March and that the suspects had requested him to wire $60,000 to a checking account in the US in trade for preserving the corporate, his household and himself freed from any violent assaults.
‘Since March now we have been receiving intimidating calls, messages and images at a number of of our firm headquarters, the place they’ve requested us for $60,000 to an account overseas to cease the intimidation,’ he mentioned.
Vélez alerted authorities of the threats that had been made by way of texts and cellphone calls by way of WhatsApp and moved his household out of Bogotá.
‘I needed to go away city,’ he mentioned. ‘However there was no progress concerning the investigation. What we all know, from the accent of the individuals who have known as to threaten us, is that the gang may very well be of overseas origin, presumably from Venezuela, as a result of our operation is directed in the direction of that nation. However past that, we do not know extra.’
Police in Bogotá, Colombia are trying to find two suspects, together with one seen right here, who tossed a grenade contained in the workplace of an company that gives transport and transportation companies to Venezuela
The corporate offers companies to Venezuela and shut down considered one of its places in Soacha, 14 miles southwest of Bogotá, due to the continued threats.
The Bogotá Metropolitan Police commander, lieutenant José Gualdrón mentioned that Venezuelan gangs ‘Treá de Aragua’ and ‘Los Satanas’ could have been concerned within the botched attacked.
‘Apparently, two people touring on a motorbike arrived on the website and considered one of them apparently launched an explosive assault and fled,’ Sergio Boyana mentioned.
‘Instantly, the anti-explosive police responded to the emergency and managed the machine,’ he added. ‘Instantly afterwards, the intelligence and judicial police operational bubbles had been activated to gather the evidentiary materials that will lead us to the identification of those people.’
Crime stat information launched by the Colombia Nationwide Police confirmed that 16 of Bogotá’s 19 neighborhoods registered 790 extortions between January and April. As compared, solely 290 complaints had been obtained throughout the identical interval in 2023.
