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Ongoing US strikes have engulfed Venezuela, forcing president Nicolas Maduro to declare a ‘state of external disturbance’.
Videos circulating on social media show plumes of smoke rising from Fort Tiuna, a sprawling military base in the centre of the capital, Caracas, after low-flying aircraft were first heard around 2 am, causing widespread panic.
There are also unconfirmed reports that the residence of defence minister Padrino Lopez has been targeted, as well as the Simón Bolívar Airport.
Maduro has denounced the attacks as an attempt by Donald Trump to take his country’s oil and minerals.
The US president is understood to have given the military the green light to conduct land strikes in the South American country days ago – in time for Christmas – but the hit in Nigeria against alleged ISIS targets took priority, US officials told CBS News.
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