Venezuela’s law enforcement agencies have detained six suspects in a suspected act of sabotage at the country’s biggest hydroelectric power plant, Venezuelan Prosecutor General Tarek William Saab has said.
“We inform the population that the Prosecutor General’s Office managed to detain six suspects who are presumably responsible for this act of sabotage,” Saab wrote on his Twitter page.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said earlier in the day that the country’s power grid was “hit by two treacherous terror attacks” on March 25.
“The government of the Bolivarian Republic informs the people of Venezuela that on Monday, March 25, 2019, the national power grid was hit by two treacherous terror attacks, carried out by those eager to resort to violence, those who turned panic among the population into an instrument for destabilizing the situation in order to satisfy their craving for power in a way that contradicts principles of the rule of law,” reads an official statement, published by Maduro on Tuesday.
The document stops short of directly blaming the country’s opposition for the attacks, but says that organizers are supported by “warmongering forces” who, according to Caracas, are controlled by the United States.
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government said it would cancel academic studies at all educational institutions on Wednesday and declare it a non-working day due to massive power outages.