Armed Men Rob State-owned Radio Station in Venezuela

2009-02-28 09:19:02 Xinhua Web Editor: Zhang Xu

Four armed men entered early Friday morning the offices of a state-owned radio station east of Caracas and looted its equipment and food tickets.

The raiders also damaged some equipment of Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV), but no one was hurt in the incident, the Venezuelan Communication and Information Ministry said in a statement.

The incident occurred at 1:30 a.m. local time when the RNV was re-broadcasting a program from the sate-owned Venezolana de Television, the statement said.

The armed men stayed 20 minutes inside the facilities and communicated with other people through cell phones before escaping aboard the same motorbike they arrived with, a witness said.

The authorities did not mention the value of the food tickets the robbers took.

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