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Venezuelan authorities said Monday they had surrounded and captured members of a rebel group whose leader Oscar Perez a rogue police pilot hijacked a helicopter in June and dropped grenades on the Supreme Court and Interior Ministry.
His fate was unclear, but rumors swirl that he was reportedly killed. According to an Interior Ministry press release, police surrounded a house in the impoverished El Junquito area of western Caracas and exchanged gunfire with the rebels, leaving two police dead and five wounded.
An unspecified number of rebels were killed and five captured, according to the statement.