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| Venezuela crisis: Helicopter 'attacks' Supreme Court | 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". | 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. | According to the government, an army officer took a police helicopter and flew it over the capital, Caracas. |
| Footage on social media shows a helicopter swooping over the city followed by a loud bang. | |
| The officer believed to have seized the aircraft has issued a video statement condemning the government. | |
| There are no reports of anyone being killed or injured. | There are no reports of anyone being killed or injured. |
| There have been almost daily protests against Mr Maduro's 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. | 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. | President Maduro said grenades had been dropped in the attack and he promised that security forces would capture those behind it. |
| "I have activated the entire armed forces to defend the peace," he said in an address from the Miraflores presidential palace. | |
| "Sooner or later, we are going to capture that helicopter and those who carried out this terror attack." | |
| The officer, who called himself Oscar Perez, appeared on Instagram, flanked by armed and masked men in uniform. | The officer, who called himself Oscar Perez, appeared on Instagram, flanked by armed and masked men in uniform. |
| He appealed to Venezuelans to oppose "tyranny". | |
| "We are a coalition of military employees, policemen and civilians who are looking for balance and are against this criminal government," he said. | |
| "We don't belong to any political tendency or party. We are nationalists, patriots and institutionalists." | |
| He said the "fight" was not against the security forces but "against the impunity of this government. It is against tyranny". |