Caracas (EFE).- Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced on Tuesday the appointment of three officials from his office to investigate the deaths that occurred in the United States’ military attack on Caracas and other areas of Venezuela, which concluded with the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“As the Attorney General’s Office, we have appointed three prosecutors to investigate the numerous civilian and military casualties amid this horrible war crime and unusual aggression against the Venezuelan homeland,” Saab said in a statement announcing the inauguration of a new legislature of the Venezuelan Parliament.
Caracas has not yet specified the number of injured or deceased in the bombings.
As of Sunday, the Cuban government reported that 32 of its military personnel stationed in Venezuela died in “combat actions” during the US attack on Venezuelan territory.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel explained on social media that his country’s military personnel were “carrying out missions” in Caracas at the request of Venezuelan authorities, but he did not provide further details.
The Cuban Ministry of the Interior announced on social media that the deceased included personnel from the Revolutionary Armed Forces, as well as the Intelligence Services and the Ministry of the Interior.
Shortly before Havana’s announcement, US President Donald Trump stated that “many on the other side” had died in the operation to capture Maduro, including “many Cubans” who were protecting him.
According to The New York Times, Venezuelan sources revealed that 80 people died in the operation in Venezuela, while Washington officials said that half a dozen US soldiers were wounded, though Trump did not confirm the figures.
On Monday, about a dozen people gathered to mourn Rosa Elena González, an 80-year-old resident of La Guaira state near Caracas who died during the US attacks in Venezuela.
González lived in the Rómulo Gallegos urbanization in the Catia La Mar sector, which is next to the Meseta de Mamo, home to the Bolivarian Navy Military Academy, one of the targets of the US attacks on Saturday.
According to residents of the area who spoke with EFE, González was injured in her home during an explosion and then transferred to a nearby hospital, but died. Her apartment was destroyed when hit by the bombings. EFE
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