Bomb explodes outside Latin American Development Bank in Venezuela capital

CARACAS, December 22nd, 2015 (EFE) An improvised bomb went off Tuesday at the CAF-Latin American Development Bank offices in Venezuela’s capital, but no one was injured, Chacao Mayor Ramon Muchacho, the top official in the east-central Caracas area where the building is located, said.

“The explosion occurred a few minutes after midnight … All our support and solidarity go out to the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and its employees after this cowardly attack,” Muchacho said in a Twitter post.

“An individual wearing a hoodie-type sweatshirt got out of a pick-up truck and placed a bag on the glass wall of a bank that operates at the CAF (building) and there was an explosion 10 seconds later that caused property damage,” the mayor, a member of the opposition, said, citing “unofficial versions” of the bombing.

“At the CAF building, there is broken glass and remnants of what appears to be a homemade explosive device,” the mayor said, adding that a couple of windows on the building’s ground floor were shattered.

National government officials have not commented on the incident.

“There was an attempt to cause terror and some damage, and, in fact, they did,” Carvajal said, adding that the bombing was caught on security cameras.

The CAF is a multilateral financial institution that supports sustainable development in member countries and regional integration.

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela, along with 14 private banks in the Andean region, belong to the organization.

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