Two military personnel die a helicopter crashes in Venezuela

Two soldiers died and two others were injured when a helicopter of the Venezuelan Armed Forces manufactured in Venezuela crashed on Tuesday.

 President Nicolás Maduro. "Today we have had a sad and unfortunate accident in the Lara state (west), of an Mi-17 helicopter with two deceased and two pilots who are fighting for their lives," Maduro said at a meeting with ministers broadcast on government television. The device, which crashed in Pavia, Barquisimeto, capital of Lara, was consumed by fire. The two wounded, military, were rescued by neighbors and workers in the sector. "One was burned," José Monte, a worker in the area, who helped with the rescue efforts, said. "We didn't realize it at the time and the candle was already reaching the edge of the other two." Earlier, the mayor of Barquisimeto, Luis Jonás Reyes, published photos of the skeleton of the aircraft still on fire. According to the inhabitants of the sector, the accident occurred around 2:10 p.m. local time (6:10 p.m. GMT) and the two injured were taken to nearby health centers in private vehicles. Maduro expressed condolences and thanked the peasants for helping in the relief efforts to get the wounded out of the aircraft. "Painful, unfortunate, they were fulfilling their mission, they had just completed a mission from Apure (state), and left Yaracuy (state) for Maracaibo to complete another mission," he explained, without giving details about the causes of the Sinister.