President Donald Trump announced that the United States has carried out another air strike on a vessel off the Venezuelan coast, once again accusing the boat of transporting drugs.
In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump said six people were killed in the latest bombing.
“Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO),” Trump wrote.
“The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed.”
Trump did not offer any evidence to confirm his allegation that the boat was “conducting narcotrafficking”.
But as with past strikes, he shared an unclassified v