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Hours after ousted President Nicolas Maduro appeared in a New York courtroom indicted on four criminal counts, and Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez was officially sworn in as Venezuela’s interim leader, multiple gunshots were heard in Caracas, near the Presidential palace, Miraflores.

Videos on social media overnight depicted armed police on the streets following the reported firings, though the cause and origin of the exchange have not yet been officially confirmed.

Minister of Justice and regime loyalist Diosdado Cabello, also named as a defendant in the US indictment that alleges Maduro’s criminal activity, appeared in the capital’s streets among heavily armed police officers. He was pictured chanting "loyal always, traitors never!"