Dominican Republic forces have seized hundreds of cocaine packages from a speedboat that was targeted and destroyed by the United States Navy, officials said, amid escalating anti-drug operations in the Caribbean.

In a post on X on Sunday, the Dominican Republic’s National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), the country’s drug enforcement agency, said it carried out a joint Dominican-US operation in which they said they recovered 1,000kg (2,200lb) of cocaine in 377 packages.

The statement said the vessel carrying the contraband was destroyed approximately 80 nautical miles (150km) south of Beata Island off the southern coast of the Dominican Republic.

The DNCD released footage of the operation in which the drugs were captured, showing a vessel at sea, with officers boarding the boat an

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