Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says an armed group of men were intercepted attempting to enter Venezuela from Trinidad and Tobago.

According to an article Wednesday published online on Prensa Latina, the state news agency for Cuba, during the swearing-in ceremony of the new governor of the northeastern state of Sucre, Jhoanna Carrillo, the president announced that the men were "carrying weapons of war" and attempted to breach the border through Trinidad and Tobago. The article, however, does not specify the exact location. 

Maduro said that half of those captured are of Colombian origin and were brought across the Caribbean Sea to enter the country. He called for "a thousand eyes and a thousand ears" and asserted that "the terrorists have not been able to, nor will they be able to."