According to President Donald Trump, three people have been killed in a second strike in the United States in an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
“This morning, in my orders, the US military forces carried out a second kinetic strike against posters and drug trafficking drug trafficking extraordinarily identified and extraordinarily violent in the area of responsibility of Southcom,” Trump wrote on social networks. “The strike occurred while these confirmed narco -terrorists from Venezuela were in international waters transported illegal narcotics (a deadly gun poisoning Americans!) He went to the United States,”
The US command. UU. He sent questions about the White House strike.
Trump announced earlier this month that 11 people had been killed in a similar strike in a boat.
Trump said the first drug boat, beaten on September 2, carried a “massive amount of drugs”, and was operated by members of the South American Gang Train of Aragua. Venezuelan Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, said last Thursday on state television that none of the crew members were part of Aragua or drug traffickers.
President Donald Trump talks to journalists before leaving on Air Force One at Morristown airport, on September 14, 2025, in Morristown, NJ
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The boat had turned around and headed to the shore shortly before the strike began, according to a person familiar with the matter, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported for the first time.
There are currently eight armed ships that operate in the region: seven operate in the Caribbean and one in the Pacific.
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