Venezuela President calls Supreme Court attack a "terror attack"

A police helicopter attacked the Venezuela Supreme Court in Caracas in what President Nicolas Maduro condemned as a "terrorist attack."

Two grenades were tossed at the building but failed to explode. The helicopter had also flown over the Interior Ministry.

Attackers hold a poster with anti-government slogans in a helicopter.

The attacker was reportedly a civil servant of the local government and had delivered some anti-government speeches in social media, local media reports.

"I have activated the entire armed forces to defend the peace," Maduro said from the Miraflores presidential palace.

"I demand that the MUD (opposition coalition) condemns this eminently coup-mongering attack," he added.

Maduro said he hopes to restart the process of "peace talk" with oppositions, and the Constituent Assembly Election was likely one of the ways to solve the opposition protests which have lasted for three months.

Maduro's opponents particularly disliked the pro-government Supreme Court as its string of rulings have been empowering the president but undermining the opposition-controlled legislature.

For more than two years, Venezuelans have been struggling from the country’s terrible economic crisis in generations. The price of oil, which has long boosted the local economy and paid for social programs, has plummeted.

(CGTN)