Two Venezuelan workers would have accidentally activated an abandoned explosive while carrying out maintenance work on the Cerro González path, in the municipality of El Zulia, in Cúcuta, Colombia.
According to the authorities, Yonathan José Bastidas Terán, 38, and Ramón Gregorio Montoya, 47, had to be transferred to the Juan Luis Londoño hospital in Norte de Santander, on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 7, where they were treated for burns and shrapnel in the body.
Subsequently, both Bastidas and Montoya explained to the Metropolitan Police of Cucuta that they heard a noise while cutting the undergrowth with a scythe in Cerro González.
According to the news reported by The viewerthe mayor of El Zulia, Manuel Padilla, indicated that an investigation was opened to determine the cause of the explosion.
“What I know is exactly what the Police gave me in writing at this time. The way they arrived at the Juan Luis Londoño Hospital is the only thing they have told us, since these two people have refused to give more information. They say that they were on a farm, that they were grazing, that they were trying to cut a meadow with a machete,” declared the mayor.
