Watch live: President Trump to address nation at 10 a.m. after Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro captured

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President Donald Trump will address the nation on Saturday morning hours after the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in an extraordinary nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes.

The stunning military action followed months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the oil-rich South American nation, and as of Saturday morning, the legal authority for the attack was not immediately clear. 

Maduro and other Venezuelan officials were indicted in 2020 on “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges. The Justice Department released a new indictment Saturday of Maduro and his wife for alleged role in narco-terrorism conspiracy.

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured in a stunning U.S. military operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes. Jenn Schanz reports.

Trump said the couple were aboard the U.S. warship Iwo Jima and headed to New York, where they will face prosecution.

Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Maduro and Flores were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.

“That’s where they bombed,” he said. “And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president and the first lady of the country.”

Early Saturday, multiple explosions rang out and low-flying aircraft swept through the Venezuelan capital. Maduro’s government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations, calling it an “imperialist attack” and urging citizens to take to the streets.

The attack itself lasted less than 30 minutes and the explosions — at least seven blasts — sent people rushing into the streets, while others took to social media to report what they’d seen and heard.

Some Venezuelan civilians and members of the military were killed, said Rodríguez, the vice president, without giving a number. Trump said some U.S. forces were injured in the strikes but that he believed “we had nobody killed.”

It was not known if more actions lie ahead, though Trump said in his post that the strikes were carried out “successfully.”