Venezuelan government sources reported that police fired at drones that flew through the area without authorization.
The police of fired at drones that were flying without authorization on Monday night (5) in the vicinity of the Miraflores Presidential Palace, according to information from the Venezuelan government. “No confrontation occurred,” an official source told correspondents. He also added that “the entire country is in complete tranquility”.
The shots were heard after 8pm local time (9pm in Brasília), according to residents of the region.
“It looked like explosions were happening in sequence,” said a resident who lives five blocks from Miraflores. “The first thing that came to my mind was to check if there were planes flying overhead, but there weren’t,” he declared.
“I just saw two red lights in the sky,” added the resident, who did not want to be identified. He said the movement “lasted approximately one minute.”
Videos to which AFP had access show the presidential palace in the dark and what appear to be tracer projectiles. Police officers also appear in the vicinity of Miraflores.
The incident occurred after and a few hours after .
*With information from AFP
