A Venezuelan police helicopter attacked the Supreme Court on Tuesday, ratcheting up a political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro condemned as a "terrorist" attack.

Many Venezuelans are furious with President Nicolas Maduro's government, blaming it for soaring inflation, shortages of everything from food to medicine, and a crackdown on human rights.

The boy's death brings the number of dead from protests to at least 43, equal to that of the 2014 protests.