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| Venezuela crisis: Helicopter 'attacks' Supreme Court | |
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| A helicopter has apparently tried to bomb Venezuela's Supreme Court in what President Nicolas Maduro called a "terrorist attack". | |
| According to the government, an army officer took a police helicopter and flew it over the capital, Caracas. | |
| Videos on social media show a helicopter swooping over the city and several loud bangs can be heard. | |
| The officer believed to have seized the helicopter put out a video statement condemning the government. | |
| There are no reports of anyone being killed or injured. | |
| There have been almost daily protests against the leftist government for more than two months, as the country's economic and political crisis has worsened. | |
| More than 70 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April, according to figures released by the chief prosecutor's office. | |
| President Maduro said grenades had been dropped in the attack and he promised that security forces would capture those behind it. | |
| The officer, who called himself Oscar Perez, appeared on Instagram, flanked by armed and masked men in uniform. | |
| He appealed to Venezuelans to oppose the "criminal government". |