"President Donald Trump says two surviving narcoterrorists from a semi-submersible vessel destroyed by the US military in the Caribbean will be sent to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia. It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday."
"He said that US intelligence has confirmed the vessel was carrying fentanyl and other narcotics. The vessel was targeted on Thursday in what Trump described as a strike aimed at disrupting a major drug trafficking route. Two crew members were killed, he said, while two others survived and were airlifted by US forces in a helicopter rescue operation to a nearby US Navy warship. The US military held the survivors on board at least until Friday evening."
"Washington says its campaign is dealing a decisive blow to drug trafficking, but it has provided no evidence that the people killed were drug smugglers. With Trump's confirmation of the death toll on his Truth Social platform, that means US military actions against vessels in the region have killed at least 29 people. The president has justified the strikes by asserting that the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with drug cartels."
A semi-submersible vessel carrying fentanyl and other narcotics was destroyed by US forces in the Caribbean while navigating a known narcotrafficking transit route. Two crew members were killed and two others survived; the survivors were airlifted to a nearby US Navy warship and held on board. Two surviving suspected narcoterrorists will be returned to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia. Ecuador's press office said it was not aware of repatriation plans, and Colombian authorities offered no immediate comment. At least six vessels, mostly speedboats, have been targeted by US strikes in the Caribbean since September, with some alleged to originate in Venezuela.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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