Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

Guyana on Thurs­day de­mand­ed that Venezuela in­ves­ti­gate what it said were two re­cent shoot­ings tar­get­ing Guyanese troops along their shared bor­der, in­clud­ing one that wound­ed a sol­dier.

A protest note from Guyana’s For­eign Min­istry said the two at­tacks took place ear­li­er this month on sol­diers pa­trolling the Cuyu­ni Riv­er. It comes just days af­ter the neigh­bor­ing coun­tries ap­peared be­fore the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice in The Hague for ar­gu­ments in a dis­pute over a min­er­al- and oil-rich re­gion that en­com­pass­es two-thirds of Guyana’s ter­ri­to­ry and that Venezuela claims as its own.