Maduro says foes used explosive drones to kill him

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he survived an assassination attempt involving explosive drones on Saturday (August 04) thanks to God, the people and the country’s armed forces, and he blamed Colombia and the United States for what he called a right-wing plot to kill him, Reuters said.

In a televised speech hours after his address to a military event in Caracas was cut short by apparent explosions, Maduro said "everything points" to a right-wing plot that initial investigation suggested originated in neighboring Colombia. Several perpetrators were caught, he said, without elaborating.