In a communique issued by the FANB, the military explained that there had been an attack on the 41st Armored Brigade, which was led by a group made up of “civilian delinquents in military uniforms and a first lieutenant who had deserted.

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Armed Forces, FANB, responded courageously to the paramilitary-style terrorist attack carried out this Sunday against Fort Paramacay in the central state of Carabobo, President Nicolas Maduro said.

“I cannot describe it in any other way, it is a terrorist attack against the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the Armed Forces has reacted in a united way, with morality, with decisiveness,” the Venezuelan head of state added.

Maduro noted that among the anti-government group, two were killed and seven arrested.