A “terrorist attack” ruptured storage tanks at a heavy oil processing plant in eastern Venezuela, Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo said on Thursday, blaming the United States and opposition chief Juan Guaido.
No casualties were reported in the incident that occurred late on Wednesday at the Petro San Felix facility located on the outskirts of the Venezuelan city of Barcelona in which three tanks caught fire.
Quevedo blamed Guaido, the head of Venezuela’s opposition-ruled legislature and self-proclaimed interim president backed by 50 countries, accusing him of collusion with the United States. “There was a terrorist act that we denounce at an international level,” Quevedo told state television network VTV.