United States President Donald Trump says American forces have carried out a third strike targeting a ship that he claimed was “trafficking illicit narcotics” and killing at least three men on board the vessel.
The announcement, late on Friday, came as Venezuela accused the US of waging an “undeclared war” in the Caribbean and called for a United Nations probe into the strikes.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the latest “lethal kinetic strike” took place on his orders in the US Southern Command’s “area of responsibility”, a region that encompasses 31 countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans,” Trump said.
“The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No US Forces were harmed in this strike.”
Trump posted minute-long aerial footage showing side-by-side videos of a vessel – one in colour and one in black and white – that is struck by a projectile as it moves through the water.
