Venezuela steps up security along Colombia border
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About 3,000 Venezuelan soldiers have been sent to bolster security along the border with Colombia after the neighboring country's main rebel group carried out a deadly attack on a Colombian army patrol in the frontier region, Venezuela's defense minister said Thursday.
Colombian officials have said that guerrillas from the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, staged an attack Monday out of Venezuelan territory, killing 12 soldiers and wounding four in a rural area of Colombia. The commander of the Colombian army's 1st Division, Gen. Jorge Eliecer Suarez, has said the FARC rebels then withdrew back into Venezuela. (AP)
