receive to 2018 , a strange time when viral television show aerial drone attempting to assassinate strongmen world leader .

On Saturday good afternoon , Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was targeted by an apparent assassination attack that reportedly involved two aerial poke armed with explosive , Reutersreports .

Maduro was delivering a speech to soldier in the country ’s capital Caracas . Videos from the Venezuelan public broadcaster show Maduro , along with   a gang of military leader on level , suddenly seem up to the sky . The audio from the clip then disappears , although two loud explosions were report . The president ’s security measures team   proceed to huddle around him with what come along to be bulletproof carapace . The TV disregard to the scores of soldiers who start   fleeing in panic .

Most   pieces of information about the tone-beginning are hazy , with international news means and the Venezuelan office all telling slightly differing account of the Clarence Day ’s event . Some have even suggested the attack was a   false flag , although that remains unsubstantiated .

Maduro was unscathed during the plan of attack , but seven soldiers were injured .

“ I am awake and winning , ” the president said in a telecast spoken communication after the attack . “ Everything point to the Venezuelan ultra - rightfield in alliance with the Colombian ultra - correct , and that the name of Juan Manuel Santos [ Colombia ’s president ] is behind this blast . ”

The Associated Pressreports that one of the drones then crashed into a nearby building before falling to the ground and exploding . The other was electronically knocked off course by the armed services . A little - known grouping hollo " The National Movement of Soldiers in tetraiodothyronine - shirts ” claimed duty for the character assassination attempt . As of Monday , authorities have detain six defendant , although they claim to be on the heels of a few more individuals .

“ It was not successful today , but it is just a issue of time , ” the group reportedly said in a tweet .

The melodic theme of terrorists using droning attacks against heads of state might seem like a far - out idea from a scientific discipline fiction movie , but it ’s likely to be a radical that sticks around in geezerhood to come . They ’re cheap , well-heeled to use , and extremely accessible .

write inThe Washington Post , former music director of counterterrorism at the CIA Bernard Hudson conclude : “ Weaponized drones are steadfastly in the hired hand of non - state worker . No one is good . Not heads of state . Not the flying public . We can not afford delay in forge slipway to battle this raw peril . ”

Maduro took power in 2013 after the last of socialist drawing card Hugo Chávez . The double-decker driver - grow - president has recently proved wildly unpopular following a massive economic crash last year . In August 2017 , the state of affairs in the South American city became so dire some citizen broke intoa zoo inMaracaiboand eat the animals .