HEAVY gunfire was heard near the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, last night.
The shots lit up the sky on Monday night, believed to be drones and anti-aircraft fire by locals.
After the gunfire, armoured vehicles arrived at Miraflores presidential palace, with troops were deployed to surrounding areas, witnesses said.
The shots came it as a result of confusion between different government forces in the city, Sky News reported.
Venezuelan state drones were performing surveillance in Caracas, but the presidential guard were unaware.
On high alert after US forces captured the country’s president last week, guards at the presidential palace shot at the drones, before being told that they were Venezuelan aircraft.
Cops fired at drones that were “flying without permission”, Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication and Information said.
It said: “No confrontation occurred, and the entire country is completely calm.”
A White House official told CNN that “the US is not involved” in the Caracas chaos, but that they are monitoring the situation.
It comes after Nicolas Maduro fumed in a New York Court on Monday, insisting he was a “prisoner of war” and still the rightful Venezuelan president.
The seized tyrant said in a dramatic rebuke to his sensational capture by US forces: “I am not guilty, I am a decent man, I am still the president of my country.”
